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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sotik, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Francis Sigei",
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    "content": "attract foreign investors who should come to this country and invest in manufacturing industries and other areas which can give us employment. We also need to look at the issue of value addition. I know that this cannot be addressed now. Lastly, I want to speak about domestic borrowing. We need to focus more on borrowing from within this country. We can then stop over-relying on foreign borrowing. I wish to mention the issue of absorbing the 46,000 JSS intern teachers into permanent and pensionable status, which is a big plus for the Budget. People who were hired as intern teachers were going to give us problems. They were in fact demonstrating. We applaud the Budget and Appropriations Committee for retaining these teachers. That also goes for the intern doctors who are going to give valuable services to this country. We need to have more teachers. In the next Budget, I want to ask the Committee to address the issue of the 20,000 teachers to be employed so that we can reduce the teacher shortage problem that we have in education. There is an issue I want to address even though it is not in the Budget – the issue of peace in this country. If we are going to address the issue of the Budget, we need to equally address the issue of peace. When we had a problem in Parliament, everybody knew that security is paramount. Any one of us who was here had to run for their lives. Peace is important and everybody must address it. We must keep peace in this country and every Kenyan must take part in ensuring that it prevails. For any development to take place, there must be a peaceful environment. With those remarks, I support the Bill."
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