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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, I also see very shockingly a programme on sanitary towels that was celebrated by women and young girls who go to school. This programme was allocated Kshs500 million but it has low allocation. As a Government, what has been celebrated by previous Governments should be encouraged to go on. Those sanitary towels are not a luxury; they were allowing many girls to attend school full time, like their male counterparts. Without those sanitary towels, we lose many young girls. I will bring that amendment because I do not see the allocation, although I am happy that the Budget and Appropriations Committee does raise it as one of the priority areas that it wishes that the National Treasury would have re-looked at. I also want to talk about the allocation of money that has been given to the Kenya Data Networks on the expansion of the Fibre Optic Cables. It really does not matter how much you expand it. If we do not give money to counties, especially those that are urban, to set up call centres so that our young people can get work, we will not achieve much. The Fibre Optic Cables make our internet provide service faster and the venture is one way of creating employment and the kind of employment that we can get is really amazing. For example, if you call your helpline on the mobile number you use, probably you will be attended to by somebody who is in India. Why not Kenya and yet our education system has been one of the best; our English is probably one of the best without accent? This is an area that we are avoiding and yet it can create employment opportunities and we do know that we need employment opportunities in this country. Hon. Speaker, another area that I am worried about is the integrated learning. We have spoken many times about free primary education, but there is nothing free if it discriminates some parts of society. Today people and especially children living with disabilities do not have free primary education. This is because we have pushed aside integrated learning. Public schools are given enough support in terms of finances so that children with disabilities can learn with other children. They should not be discriminated. That allocation that was promised by the previous Government is not there. It does not matter how much money we allocate, if we do not allocate money where it touches the lives of ordinary Kenyans, it will not touch the core of the people. It may help the Government, it maybe infrastructural development, but if it does not go into creating employment, doing integrated learning, for example, to children with disabilities, helping young people to get employment and women to do business; we might be doing a lot of good work but it might not help the people of Kenya. I will be bringing these amendments, but I want to congratulate the Budget and Appropriations Committee for the excellent work. I support."
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