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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nyenze",
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        "legal_name": "Francis Mwanzia Nyenze (Deceased)",
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    "content": "if a policy is to irrigate one million acres, it has to be done. However, where you have to consult and then you pass through so much bureaucracy, it is not easy for you to implement any single thing. Devolution is eating into a lot of our resources and that is why there is no money in this country. That is one reason but there are other reasons. The other one is lack of security. There is so much insecurity everywhere and we cannot blame the police force because every time there is insecurity people say the regular police force and Administration Police (AP) are not doing their work. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I went to Milimani Police Station to visit a relative, and then they took me to the Officer Commanding Police Division’s office to say jambo . Do you know what I sat on? He had to stand so that I sit on his chair because the other chair that was there had only three legs and he did not want Mheshimiwa to fall down and that was one of the best police stations because it has chairs. In most of these police stations, there are no chairs. There is nothing. Let the Government put money in security service and insecurity will be a thing of the past. In fact, the police officers should be paid well instead of deducting their salaries in order to cut the wage bill. Besides increasing their salaries, you also need to provide the infrastructure for them to work. You find there is a Land Rover that they have been given but it has no tyres. It has no fuel and there is no money for its maintenance. How do you expect them to work? In fact, let us address these issues and insecurity will be a thing of the past. If there is insecurity, no investor will put their money here. They will fear because of insecurity and there will be no jobs. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we have talked about the big wage bill, and I commend the President and his Deputy for having their salaries deducted. Even Aden Duale, the Leader of Majority Party, said 15 per cent should be deducted. However, I just want to say that it is a good gesture but that is not the solution to the problem we are having. Let us address the problem of high level corruption and wastage, the way the Chairman of the Budget and Appropriations Committee has said. If we can save Kshs300 billion through checking on wastage in Government offices, we will not even have our salaries deducted. We will increase it. However, I am ready to offer mine to be slashed but let us not touch the teachers’ and the askaris’ salaries. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker I also want to say this: Education is key to growth, and I am very happy that hon. Rev. Mutava Musyimi who nearly became our President and am sure he is a potential President, has insisted and suggested that every constituency should have an extra polytechnic because where do our students go? He has given very worrying figures that 1.3 million children go to Standard One because there is free education, courtesy of the former President Moi. Now 1.3 million go to Standard One and then after that it is only 600,000 who go to Form One. He asked: “Where do the other 700,000 go? I got a bit shocked. Where do they go at that young age? If they do not join Standard One, are we not being irresponsible by not worrying about where they go at that young age? Let us build polytechnics and I would buy that idea you have, to build as many polytechnics in my constituency to cater for those young people who have no place in Form One. In my constituency like in your constituencies, so many parents come to me asking for bursaries to educate their children. I am appealing to the Budget and Appropriations Committee Chairman that in any other future budgets, he should allocate The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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