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    "id": 193496,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kimunya",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Finance",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 174,
        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
        "slug": "amos-kimunya"
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    "content": "This initiative, besides reducing time and energy wasted in fetching water, will also avail water resources for productive agriculture and other uses. The Water Resources Board will also move quickly to invest more in water and sanitation systems including devising ways to harness rain water and expand water supplies. The Government will also initiate the development of the second Mzima Springs Project, to ensure sufficient water supply to Mombasa and its surroundings. Towards this end, this Budget has increased the allocations to the Ministry of Water and Irrigation by 26 per cent, for water and irrigation services which should see improvement in water access to all Kenyans. On environment, recently, we celebrated the World Environment Day and the initiative to clean up the Nairobi River by the Ministry of Environment and the National Environment Management Authority in partnership with stakeholders. As hon. Members are aware, environment conservation is crucial for sustained growth and development. To sustain our growth and development efforts, we must deal with the many environmental related challenges such as destruction of water catchment areas, pollution of environment and rivers and disposal of solid 1150 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES June 12, 2008 waste. I wish also to urge hon. Members and Kenyans at large, to take a leading role in environmental conservation. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the tourism sector was adversely affected by the recent crisis. Promotion efforts by the Government are bearing fruit and need to be sustained. It has the potential to support a broad range of actors from hoteliers, transport, farmers and our youth. I have accordingly allocated a further Kshs600 million towards promotion of tourism by the Kenya Tourism Board in this Budget. Overall, compared to last year, the Budget for the Ministry of Tourism is expected to increase by over 26 per cent in the Financial Year 2008/2009. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I will now look at investing in Kenyans for equity and higher productivity. An educated and healthy workforce is a prerequisite for any meaningful development. No country can develop to an upper middle income level without serious investment in its people through education and health. Building on the progress we made in the Free Primary Education, the Government went a step further early this year to introduce Free Secondary Education to improve transition rates by making education accessible to children especially from the poor families. To ensure that increased transition rates to secondary schools do not lead to congestion and lower quality education, I have allocated an extra Kshs280 million to build and equip new secondary schools countrywide. This is in addition to the planned construction works financed through CDF countrywide and for which we are very grateful to the Members for identifying education as a key area for financing."
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