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    "content": "thinking of quality centres in every constituency; one secondary and two primary schools, will raise the standards or quality of our education. I am also happy because he has increased the number of teachers to 50 in all primary schools which will result to about 12,000 more teachers. Although they will be hired on contract, we are sure we are going to better the quality of our education. The Minister did not look into the issue of livestock farmers. Currently, many livestock are dying. We did not hear him talk of any funds for the purposes of restocking. It is very unfortunate when you just find carcasses lying around. The Minister should have thought about restocking the livestock. He should also have put aside some money to restock after the rains. We should look into the livestock sector with a view of improving it. Actually, right now the Kenya Meat Commission (KMC) is at the verge of collapse. If we could allocate more money to livestock, I think it would better the lives of people in Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASAL). The Minister should also increase funds for Agenda 4 which is one of the requirements for reforms. Agenda 4 should be well funded so that land policy and other agendas are well implemented. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, on infrastructure, the Minister has allocated fairly better funds towards the development of roads and other needs. However, he should also prioritize roads that have an economic impact in the country. We talk a lot about roads, but the many roads that we are doing are those that have been there time immemorial. It is high time we started opening up our country towards northern Kenya and linking it to other countries like Ethiopia, Somali and Sudan. This would enable our second port that we are talking about be busy. We do not need to put up a big port yet we do not have the demand for the same. If we could link Kenya to other parts of the world or African countries, I think our ports will be okay. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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