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"speaker_name": "Dr. Monda",
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"content": "First and foremost, I want to thank God for seeing this country once again go back to normalcy. The trend we had taken was to destruction. That is why I want to thank God for seeing us back to normalcy. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, allow me to thank His Excellency the President and the Prime Minister-designate, hon. Raila Odinga, for quickly going into action and ensuring that we have a peace accord, which this House passed last evening. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, let me congratulate this House for the kind of spirit that was shown to the nation and the entire world. The enthusiasm with which we passed the two Bills showed that all of us wanted peace for this country. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, may I now comment on the Presidential Address and particularly on employment. There have been very good policies passed on employment for our youth. Up to last year, it was very clear to the entire country that Kenyans expected creation of 500,000 jobs per year. I want to believe that they were realised. I want to suggest that the employment of our youth should be as transparent as possible. I want to propose that employment should be devolved to the constituency level as the lowest unit, where we have devolved resources to. As we have the current Government set-up, I want to propose that, in particular, employment should be transparent and put in the media, so that all people are satisfied with the way recruitment is carried out. This should be particularly so with the recruitment of police officers that is going on currently. We shall want to see a situation where each constituency is represented in the police force. I know that there is no constituency without youth who can be recruited into the police force. I am sure that each constituency has youth with the minimum qualifications. Therefore, I want to propose that the current police officers recruitment be made public, so that we can know how recruits will be shared regionally. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the infrastructure of this country has, time and again, been talked about. It has been talked about in this House, and we have been expecting to see improvement, particularly of roads. We do not have a particular road that crosses the country, for example from Mombasa to Uganda or from Mombasa to Tanzania, that has no rough parts. This is so yet our engineers, day in day out, are busy working. The Government is spending resources, yet we cannot have a single complete road in the country. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for example, the road that has been built from Nairobi via Nakuru to Busia--- The sections between Nakuru and Eldoret, Nakuru and Kericho and Kericho and Kisumu are difficult to drive on yet, people are working on them day after day. There are roads that were started during the Eighth Parliament, and six years down the line, they have not yet been completed. There are several examples in the region I come from. Work on the road from Keroka via Nyangusu to Trans Mara was started, but a distance of approximately 50 kilometres cannot be completed in seven years! Mr. Speaker, Sir, as much as I congratulate the Minister for Roads and Public Works, I 242 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES March 19, 2008 would like to propose that contractors who are given contracts by this Government, and are unable to perform, should be blacklisted. They should not only be blacklisted, but should be barred from doing any work for this country. Mr. Speaker, Sir, on the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), I want to inform the House that the effects of the displacement have continued to bite as we continue speaking here about them being resettled. In the last two weeks, in my constituency alone, two secondary school students in an IDP camp hanged themselves. These were effects of displacement. The stigma of displacement is still biting. I want to propose that we should not only have them resettled, but also move with speed to put the situation back to normal. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as I conclude, I would like to talk about the public transport system. During the Ninth Parliament, rules were put in place so that public transport vehicles had speed governors. They were effective and all of us were happy about it. However, something went wrong. The Government is now quiet about it. Road carnage is on the increase while we have remained insensitive. I want to propose that the Minister for Transport rises to the challenge and ensures that the rules that exist in this country are enforced. We do not need to enact more laws to govern public transport. They exist, although there is a problem in their enforcement. We should move with speed, as a House, in enacting laws that are enforced so that the public gets the full benefits of the laws. With those few remarks, I support."
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