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    "id": 515558,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/515558/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nyenze",
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        "id": 1987,
        "legal_name": "Francis Mwanzia Nyenze (Deceased)",
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    "content": "queues there are so long. The sick persons are told to go home and come back after, say, six months. They are forced to go home to die. This is an area I am appealing to hon. Mutava Musyimi to consider because Kenyans are suffering. Please put more money and support the initiative by the first lady Margret Kenyatta to have mobile clinics so that mothers who give life can do it in dignity in their counties. All the 47 counties should have mobile clinics at all hospitals and should have enough medicine where people can be attended to without having to suffer. The Budget Policy Statement talks about education. They have allocated money for salaries. The money allocated is not for development of education. A country that has educated people develops faster. Through research and development a country is bound to develop faster. Let us put more money on development of education. The Budget and Appropriations Committee should look at these tertiary colleges. Nearly one million students graduate from primary school, but it is only less than a half who go to secondary school. After Form Four, very few go to university. This country has, however, turned the tertiary colleges and the middle colleges into universities. Who trains this other work force? Those children who do not go to secondary school or universities it is because there are very few places. Most of the colleges have been turned into universities. More money should be allocated to building polytechnics, technical schools and centers of excellence where signs, mathematics and ICT are taught. That way, this country will develop faster. The Government should pay for goods and services so as to get competitive prices. Today in this country, we have borrowed a lot of money so that the ratio of our GDP to the domestic and external debt is up to 46 per cent. Before we rebased our economy, we had exceeded the 50 per cent. This is very dangerous because Kenya is now paying more money servicing external and internal debts. I urge the Chairman of Budget and Appropriations Committee, in the BPS, to try and reduce borrowing from any sources; both external and internal. When you borrow so much from internal sources, you deny businesses credit and you put the country at risk. When we borrow so much externally, you put the future generation at risks. With regard to electricity generation, the money that has been put there is not sufficient. Ethiopia has similar conditions like in Kenya. They have geothermal power. It also has hydro power and they are developing so fast and they want to export that energy to us. Kenya should borrow from Ethiopia and build several hydroelectric stations. We also need to develop renewable energy. This is because it is cheaper. An example is geothermal. There is plenty of coal in Kitui. There is clean power production from coal. The Budget and Appropriations Committee should look into that and inject more money into development of that energy that will help this country grow faster. I want to stop at that and support this Motion."
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