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    "id": 364628,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Angwenyi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 326,
        "legal_name": "Jimmy Nuru Ondieki Angwenyi",
        "slug": "jimmy-angwenyi"
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I do not know whether the Committee was working in cahoots with the people who call us “Mpigs”. I hope those people will exonerate the names of the Committee Members from that group. I am also concerned that we did not allocate adequate resources to the key sectors of our country. One such sector is the Teachers Service Commission. We know that there is a deficit of 80,000 teachers in our schools. We should have pumped more money into the education sector to bring the child to teacher ratio to an acceptable level. We also have a deficit in the health sector. We should have pumped more money into the health sector, so that we can employ professionals to provide adequate and effective services to our people. Hon. Speaker, Sir, we should also have taken as a special consideration the funding of re-settlement of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). The spectre of IDPs in this country gives a very negative image of this country. We should forget about what happened after the 2007 elections by settling all the IDPs, so that we can move on together as Kenyans. We should also have pumped in more money in security. I am asking the Chairman of the Departmental Committee responsible for security to addresses the conflict between I-GP and NPSC. The I-GP and his team should be given adequate space to do their work because they are the professionals in policing matters. We should fund them adequately so that we can be safe. What I saw happen here this afternoon should not be repeated. Blood was thrown into the precincts of Parliament. We have curtailed the effectiveness of the police to the extent that they just watched the episode unfold. The I-GP should be given sufficient mandate to handle any situation that arises, so as to keep peace in this country. If what happened out there today happened in Kisii County, people would have fed them with faeces. You know, we would have taken the law into our own hands and fed them with faeces. That is because we have taken away the morale and effectiveness of police officers to handle those kinds of situations. Each one of us has talked about jobs for our youth, but this Budget has not addressed that issue adequately. How do you create jobs? I hope the Budget and Appropriations Committee and other Committees will acquaint themselves with countries that have created 100 per cent jobs like Hong Kong. That is a small country of 7.5 million people but it has 100 per cent employment. Take an example of Singapore, which is a small country of 1.5 million"
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