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    "speaker_name": "Dr. Mwiria",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Education",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 190,
        "legal_name": "Valerian Kilemi Mwiria",
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    "content": "to our friends has made JKIA another Jua Kali facility. There are small shops all over the place. An airport should be a place where you can relax and be comfortable. We should not use our airport as a political tool to reward our friends. That will crowd the airport. Visitors who are used to better airports find it very difficult to enjoy JKIA. We keep on partitioning it to the point that it has now become a Jua Kali facility. We have to be very careful about that. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the money given to women and youth is a very good idea. But the disbursement criteria needs to be agreed upon. Otherwise, that money will be misused like the HIV/AIDS money. It must be clear that we have so much money to distribute to constituencies and districts. But if we leave it to the people at the headquarters to distribute--- It is not quite clear that those who will benefit are not just politicians. But even the youth and women groups that are going to benefit will not be sure that they are the most deserving groups. We should agree on how much will be spent and how much will be distributed. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, to me, the real problem for the youth and women of this country are political organisations. We must ensure that many women and youths are involved in mainstream political parties so that they can influence the political agenda of those political parties. That would be a much better way of spending that money. By doing that, they would have a more bigger say in making decisions related not only to what is done in terms of their programmes, but what would be allocated in the Budget. It is also commendable that we are going to spend some money on indigenous musicians, dramatists and other local artists. There is a real problem of cultural imperialism. Most of our young people watch soap operas that you find on television, western movies and also listen to western music. It is important that we make a conscious decision to invest in our own culture. The best messengers of that are those who are already talented to ensure that they pass our cultural values from one generation to another. They should be encouraged to invest in that field. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have talked so much about the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF). I hope we will reach a point where resources, even from line Ministries, will be channelled through the CDF, as is being proposed for education and police posts. But, again, we need to be careful that there is a clear procedure, so that no resources are lost in-between. It is commendable that we are going to spend some money to rehabilitate the roads in Nairobi. But we should also focus on other cities like Mombasa and routes that lead to national June 27, 2006 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 1609 parks. It has become a big problem to our tourists. They endure such kind of roads despite the fact that, they bring in extra income. That money is used to maintain our national parks and even employ people who work there. It is all right for us to do without donor resources. But I know that if we include that in our national Budget, it would be to top up allocations meant for Ministries that have been disadvantaged. There should also be a fair distribution. The money should not be distributed haphazardly. Those donor resources should be accounted for and distributed in an equitable manner across the various parts of this country, including the constituencies. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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