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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Tarus",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Local Government",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Stephen Kipkiyeny Tarus",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for this opportunity. I want to thank the Minister for Finance for the Budget Speech, and also appreciate the importance of our youth. Our youth have a lot of problems, ranging from unemployment to participation in the informal sector, where they are exploited. They have not been able to realise their desire to participate in building our economy. As some hon. Members have said, it is important to find a way of making sure that the funds allocated to youth programmes will go into beneficial ventures. We should not have a situation where the funds go to June 29, 2006 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 1761 waste. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is very important to have good roads. Good roads reduce costs and improve the economic performance. I want to touch on the issue of maintenance of roads. We are maintaining roads that have outlived their life period. In most cases, after we reseal them, they are washed away immediately by rains. It would be important to allocate more funds for road construction. In future the budget for constructing new roads should be in the tune of Kshs100 billion. I propose that in future we should allocate not less than Kshs35 billion for the maintenance of roads in our country, so that we have suitable roads for economic development. On modernisation of our airports, I would like the Government not to forget that we spent a lot of funds to build the Eldoret International Airport. It is important that, that airport pays back the amount we spent on it. We can make it a cargo airport by introducing incentives that will attract businessmen to utilise it. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like the Ministry of Education to recognise the plight of orphaned children. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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