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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mbau",
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        "legal_name": "Elias Peter Mbau",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to support this Motion. Whereas my colleagues have chosen to isolate some aspects of this country's economy that may not be included in the Budget, I find a lot of relevance in the proposals that are contained in the Budget. My attention is drawn to the fact that for a long time many Budget proposals have not given due relevance and gravity to the proportion of this country's population that comprises more than 70 per cent of our people, who are the young people. 1580 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES June 22, 2006 The Minister has now seen the importance of establishing a fund and putting more money in the Ministry of Youth Affairs, so that our young people can be more taken care of. A lot of money has been allocated to the National Youth Service (NYS). However, very few people are currently being trained as policemen. The Minister should also ensure that our young men and women are trained in large numbers to become police officers. Only a week ago, the Administration Police Department was conducting a recruitment exercise and very many young people trooped to the fields to be recruited. Out of 1,000 young people who turned up for the recruitment, only 12 were recruited. We keep on saying that we want to create employment for our young people. We should put more money into the Police Force, so that the force can recruit more officers. We are always told that we do not have enough security personnel. We are told that we have 35,000 security officers compared to a population of more than 33 million people. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, with the introduction of the CDF, hon. Members are very busy putting up police posts and stations. When we construct these police posts and stations, we are told that there are no officers to be posted to them. We should put more money into the training of more police officers, so that the police posts and stations that we are constructing can have officers to man them. I want to talk about the higher education in Kenya. The other day, we learnt that the Joint Admissions Board has only admitted about 10,000 students out of the 70,000 students who should have joined our public universities. The Ministry should consider doubling the number of the admissions regardless of the universities' bed capacity. We should have 10,000 students as residents and another 10,000 students as non-residents, so that we do not have to say that we are controlling our intake because of low bed capacity. I believe that there are very many students who are able and willing to join our universities, if only there are enough lecturers to teach them. I would like to urge the Minister to consider that. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to talk about the issue of revamping our collapsed institutions. I note with appreciate that the Government has put in an enormous amount of money towards the revamping of the Kenya Meat Commission (KMC). I also know that last year, the Government put in some money towards the revamping of the Kenya Co-operative Creameries (KCC). When these institutions had been lying idle, a lot of public money had been tied without being of any value to the public. The Government should consider reviving all the youth polytechnics in this country, so that they can become centres of industrialisation. All said and done, if these wonderful proposals are not implemented, our country will remain a place of wonderful ideas that never see the light of the day. I would urge the Government to fully implement what has been proposed in this Budget. With those few remarks, I beg to support the Motion."
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