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    "id": 1532610,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1532610/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Busia County, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Catherine Omanyo",
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    "content": "I really want this irrigation and land reclamation to be done well while thinking of the future and making sure that what we do with that money this time is permanent. Let us not go to Budalangi every year and find there is no change or that it only gets worse. I have visited a few areas, including Sweden, Norway, and Dubai. I hear stories that areas like Dubai were once upon a time a flooded island or were and still are deserts. Dubai is now a tourist attraction centre. In fact, it is one of the highest tourist attractions. Dubai receives so many tourists every minute. They go there just to enjoy the created scenery. People who will be involved in this sector need to be passionate about changing the lives of Kenyans in such underserved areas. Wealth distribution has been a nightmare in our nation. Only 10 per cent of the Kenyan population enjoys it, and it ensures it controls the economy. A majority of Kenyans are wallowing in the miasma of poverty because of unequal wealth distribution. The wealthy hardly want to participate with others or support social programmes in low-income areas. We would curb people taking advantage of their employees if something could be done even by those who employ them to have a real minimum wage. You will find somebody employing a degree holder at Ksh15,000 only. We must have everything written theoretically well. Pragmatically, let it work for Kenyans. We will reduce income inequality and empower low wage earners if we increase the minimum wage. That way, even the wages of somebody employed somewhere can do a few things for them. They will not lack basic needs but can equally afford what wealthier persons can afford. Then, we will talk about a decrease in poor people, thereby reducing the huge gap between the rich and the poor. I suggest that education in many of our Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) centres, and generally education from primary to secondary to TVET centres, should be free if possible. We have left the rich to afford education, meaning they advance and have it all. Those who cannot afford school or college fees just stay home. We are wasting many skills in the young people who are so creative but have not been given a chance. The young have no fair or levelled field to exercise and show their creativity and know-how, just like any child whose dad, mum, or guardian can afford. Maybe these children have whatever they want at their disposal. Let us continue training young people so that we can come up as a nation and have employees and employers of people with various skills. Let us train those who dropped out in primary, secondary, and college. They can be trained to learn some skills and be part of a solution in our nation. In education, we have teachers who should be promoted to be motivated to care for our students and children in various schools. Any motivated teacher handles their students even 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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