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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Charles Nguna (",
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        "legal_name": "Charles Ngusya Nguna",
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    "content": "Mwingi West, WDM): Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker for giving me an opportunity to add my voice to the debate on this unique and important Appropriation Bill coming in the month of July. In the history of this House, this has never been witnessed. I want to thank the Budget and Appropriations Committee for the work they have done. In this year, they have had to contend with dealing with two Appropriation Bills in a span of less than four months because of the historical events that we witnessed in our country during the Generation Z activities. Therefore, I support this Bill but with a lot of reservations. First, Junior Secondary School education has won through budgetary allocation for intern teachers. However, we have over 300,000 trained primary school teachers that we have totally forgotten as far as employment is concerned. Why are we condemning these 300,000 P1 trained teachers? Going forward, we should carefully look into this aspect. Secondly, we appreciate that the allocation to the NG-CDF has remained constant. Let us stop misleading this House. The allocation to the NG-CDF remains as it was in the last financial year. I would like us to focus on the issue of infrastructure development in our technical institutes, universities, primary schools and secondary schools. The education sector has largely been affected by the Ksh5 billion budget cut, and we are going to witness a crisis. On the issue of agriculture, the funding is okay. We need to give farmers fertilizers to increase productivity. Allocating more funds will also be good for Kenyan coffee farmers. Milk production, which is an essential commodity, will also benefit. Hon. Temporary Speaker, another winning sector is security where police officers will be rewarded through salary increment. Based on the unfolding events in our country, I would like to suggest to our President and the Budget and Appropriations Committee to redirect the funds in the Housing Levy Fund to construction of good housing units for police officers instead of going the commercial way. We should invest this money to improve housing for public officers. The budget for the School Feeding Programme has been retained but this should be universal. Children are being discriminated against, especially those in areas regarded as non- marginalised. For instance, in my constituency, I do not have an existing feeding programme. We The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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