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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me an opportunity to contribute to this Motion. Budgets are read every financial year. However, if you try to analyse how the common man has benefited from the Budget, you may not be satisfied. The road network in this country is very bad and it has made our country very poor. Vehicle owners spend a lot of money in repairing and fuelling vehicles because our roads are very bad. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, since the Ministry of Roads and Public Works has been given enough money than what it was given in the last financial year, we hope that our roads are going to be repaired, new roads are going to be constructed and honest contractors will be given the contracts. Many contractors are never paid on time, even after submitting their certificates. One certificate can even accumulate up to four or five times more. If the Government can do that, then our roads will be repaired and constructed. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, bursaries that are allocated to secondary schools are never enough. The Ministry should get the total number of orphans in this country, and award them bursaries. There is no logic in giving an orphan a bursary of Kshs6,000, instead of paying the full amount of Kshs24,000. Who will pay the difference? Most of those orphans drop out of school because of lack of school fees. But to assist those needy cases, the Ministry of Education should pay the full amounts for the orphans. June 21, 2006 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 1507 Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Kshs3.20 increment on fuel is a very expensive element. It is affecting all wananchi . When the price of fuel is increased, everything else goes up. If the prices of all other items are going up, how are we going to assist the wananchi ? Bus fare from Nairobi to Kisii, which used to be Kshs400, has now been increased to Kshs700. Who is going to pay that money? The cost of a road licence for a semi-trailer was Kshs30,000 per year. But with the introduction of Kshs3.20 per litre of fuel, such people are going to pay Kshs215,000 per year. That is killing business. For a businessman to recover that money, he has to push the expense to the mwananchi . The Minister, if he was serious, could have added Kshs1.50. But he added too much. We are not assisting the economy of this country to grow because we are killing the common mwananchi. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I do not understand whether the Ministry of Water and Irrigation is a department working in one of the urban centres of Kenya! Is it a full Ministry? Hon. Members who are here can agree with me that, that Ministry is not even known in the rural areas."
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