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    "id": 430188,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mwaura",
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        "legal_name": "Isaac Maigua Mwaura",
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    "content": "If you look at the number of people who are getting to Class One, in 2005 1.3 million pupils joined Class One but those who finished Form Four are actually less than half of that number. A simple computation will tell you that 5.3 million Kenyans, for those eight years up to Class Eight, did not finish Class Eight. This is an army that is dangerous to everybody including those who are going to get an “A.” So, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the idea of village polytechnics being allocated Kshs1.4 billion is welcome. In fact, they need to be called youth polytechnics because “village” has a way of localizing even the content and paradigm of those who are subject to these polytechnics. This would translate to about Kshs29 million per county and this is good enough money. I would like to propose that we consider this to be an annual allocation so that we can build capacity for these institutions in order to take care of the group that is not able to go up the educational ladder. I also note that there are allocations for supported service delivery for counties and this is very important because you cannot be saying that you are developing other counties while others seem to be regressing. Therefore, there has been a lot of complaint. The Council of Governors came to see the Committee and the bigger counties are saying that they are spending a lot of money on Recurrent Expenditure with regard to the various professionals or civil servants who were deployed there. There has also been the debate about the workers at the county level and the creation of new positions at that level. I think this House then would also be in order if we can allocate monies for retraining those professionals so that we do not need to keep on hiring new ones. I also note that if you look at the wage bill of the country, it is manageable, to be honest and this is a smokescreen. I think it is the Jubilee Government which has realized that they have not performed for the past one year and so they have come up with a very good PR gimmick to confuse everybody. The 12 nominated Members of Parliament have always been in this House. It does not mean because Isaac Mwaura is today a nominated MP the wage bill has gone up. These positions have always been there. The representation of the marginalized must be respected. I think it is time to know that we too can be leaders. If you look at the track record of those who have been nominated before including one Uhuru Kenyatta, they have gone ahead even to become presidents."
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