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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kipyegon",
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        "legal_name": "Johana Ngeno Kipyegon",
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    "content": "Thank you for your guidance. I would like to say that I wish to address myself to many issues. We had in our Constitution an allocation for the Equalisation Fund. This was meant to address problems which are found in some areas which had been marginalised for a long time. These are also areas which the Committee should look at especially areas like Narok where we have problems. I speak of an issue which we have in our constituencies. There are some constituencies in this country which do not even have a health centre or a hospital. What they only have are dispensaries and these are areas which the Committee need to address their minds to. This is so that we do not only look at the issues of roads but we also look at the fundamental needs that people have. I must thank the Committee for the placement of the Economic Stimulus Programme (ESP). I must also agree with the Members on the fact that although the allocation of Kshs1 billion to Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) is not enough, it will go a long way to improve the projects that our committees in the constituencies are doing. The CDF has been doing a very good job and I must thank the Members for fighting for the Kshs1 billion to be allocated in that particular area. We also had issues with the older generation in our society. There was some money which was allocated which was catering for about 46, 000 orphans and elderly people. I must thank the Committee for adding the number of beneficiaries from 46,000 to about 100,000 people. These are the people who should have been earning pensions had they been working for the Government. The problem is that three quarters of our elderly people have never been in employment. Therefore, they do not have any other means of earning their living and the methods by which they have been earning their living is not something that can earn them pension. It is very important that we add the numbers so that those who were not included in the list which was released last year as beneficiaries would be increased. I thank the Committee on the question of Uwezo Fund. Although this Fund has not been felt, it has given our youth and women something to be busy with. As we speak now, young people and women in our constituencies are busy running up and down with their businesses. At least they have something to look at. They have businesses here and there to deal with. We will need to increase this money. I believe the Kshs1.4 billion which was added here will go a long way to help these people but I would wish this House to relook at the allocation of Uwezo Fund so that we can make these people busy. The youth in the society are the people who run the economy of this country. We need to have them working and doing something serious. We cannot allow these people to be idle in the society as these are people who can turn into criminals. We want to give them something to do. When we talk about Uwezo Fund we need to make it a scheme, that there should be modern ways where we can train these people seriously. Therefore, Uwezo Fund would do a very serious job."
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