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    "content": "have been authorised by the Speaker, will be communicated by my Vice-Chairperson, who will be seconding this Motion. Number one is the provisions for supporting requirements for Level 5 hospitals at Kshs3.74 billion. Then the provision to establish village polytechnics amounting toKshs1.4 billion to be shared equally amongst all counties. One of the concerns that my Committee has is that there does not seem to be the necessary commitment to the young people who started Standard One in 2005, 1.3 million children. Out of those 1.3 million children who started Standard One in 2005, only 50 per cent made it to Form One this year. The question then remains, where are those other children? Our children aged 14 and 15, where do they go? We have not sensed the commitment by the county governments to put up the village or youth polytechnics as it is expected of them by Schedule Four of the Constitution. So, we have made the decision and the recommendation that we make money available and ring-fence it to begin the process of nudging the governors by having a youth polytechnic in each constituency in the entire country. I would urge my colleagues to put pressure on these governors, so that we can have more polytechnics in these constituencies. I was privileged to be a Member of Parliament for my constituency in the Tenth Parliament and I put up six polytechnic and I want to do another eight because really, that is the only hope a lot of these children who do not make it to Form One have. For children to be out there, on their own without any support from us, is a failure. It is a tremendous failure on our part. So, this is a cry and commitment for our young people. Later on when we come to the Appropriations, you will also notice that my Committee will be suggesting to this House that we increase the CDF, fairly significantly, and the money that we shall increase the CDF by, the entire 100 per cent, goes for investment to improve infrastructure in public primary schools. This is because unless we turn and focus our attention on children on public primary schools, we will have no country here in another 20 years. That will be coming and I will have more to say about that. So, there is a commitment and a concern, you can see, for our children across the country. So we are saying that we set aside Kshs1.4 billion and ring-fence it so that each constituency gets a polytechnic. Thirdly, provision of Kshs7.3 billion for REA. Fourthly, provision of Kshs5 million per constituency. This matter was raised earlier towards completion of centres of excellence under the ESP package. It is now my pleasure and I thank you for giving me audience as generously as you have done. I now beg to move. I ask that my very able Vice-Chair, hon. Mary Emaase, takes the Floor to second. Then she can handle the other issues that are coming to my attention right now."
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