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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Githae",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Local Government",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 159,
        "legal_name": "Robinson Njeru Githae",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, wealth creation instead of poverty. We have a register for wealth creation. When you have poverty index, you are only glorifying poverty. Mr. Speaker, Sir, if you look at all the statistics from the Ministry of State for Planning, National Development and Vision 2030, they give emphasis on the girl child. In my constituency, the problem is not the girl child. We have more girls in primary school than boys. We have more girls than boys in secondary schools. My problem is the boy child. However, this problem does not seem to have been recognised by the Ministry. Mr. Speaker, Sir, my problem is the boy child and it seems that problem has not been recognised by the Ministry. The rate of drop out of boys is worrying. In fact, we need not say that all constituencies are the same. They are not the same. Some have changed. For example, in my constituency, I have four dispensaries which have been lying there, because we do not have staff. We are not even demanding a doctor. A clinical officer will do. Even a nurse will do. There is an ambulance that we were given by the Ministry, but it is lying idle because there is no driver. We must recognise that all the constituencies are not the same and, therefore, each must be treated differently. If I was given authority to employ a driver, I would be ready to do that, instead of an ambulance being idle. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the other thing that I want to speak about is the CDF. Two-and-a-half per cent is too low. In the previous Parliament, we had proposed a figure of 7.5 per cent. The CDF is the only money that is felt at the grassroots. We need to increase that amount, because it is only through the CDF that a difference can be felt on the ground. We need to increase it even if it means removing some money from the central Government. This money has resulted in a dramatic change in the lives of the people who voted for us. With those few remarks, I support."
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