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    "id": 515657,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ng’ongo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 110,
        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "However, when the Government comes up with various pillars, and the Government has set five pillars to drive the development, one would imagine that the Jubilee Administration looked at their manifesto. The pillars that they come up with should be in line with realising their manifesto. The question I want to put to the Jubilee Administration is: Have you looked at your manifesto and aligned it to the budget priorities? I say this because when you talk of creating a conducive business environment for employment creation, have you assessed whether the strategies that you are putting in place would realise more jobs for Kenyans? That is a reality that we must confront. Without creating jobs for the youth of this country, we are sitting on a time bomb. I do not see that deliberate effort by the Government to come up with methods of creating a better business environment for job creation. If that was the priority of the Government, by this time the Companies Act and other relevant Acts which are supposed to make the business environment better would have been debated in this House. The Jubilee Administration must start living with the fact that we have 48 governments in this country and not one. Why do I say that? There is a BPS which we are debating today. However, there are also County Fiscal Strategy Papers of the 47 counties. If there is no forum to synchronise and harmonise the various development strategies in our 47 county governments together with that of the national Government, we are running 48 parallel governments. That is not very good for this country. It is high time the national Government, through the National Treasury, used various organs provided like the Intergovernmental Budget and Economic Council (IBEC), the Summit and other fora to deal with how to harmonise the 48 governments that we have in this country. If that is not done, we will come up with very good figures about what we intend to realise in terms of economic growth but we will not succeed. Infrastructure is mentioned in this document as one of those areas that the Jubilee Administration is focusing on for economic growth. However, when I look at the infrastructure talked about, it is just a continuation of the infrastructural development of the Grand Coalition Government or the National Alliance Rainbow Coalition (NARC) Government. Even the so-called Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) was a creation of the Grand Coalition Government. The work that was done in the road sector by the Grand Coalition Government is not comparable to what the Jubilee Government has done so far. In fact, one would be excused to think that there is no major road construction in this country. I do not see it. I have heard of an annuity programme. There is no clear roadmap. We just hear public statements being made by the Jubilee Administration. The President and the Deputy President talk about it. It is high time that the Deputy President started disengaging from the President to supervise the Ministries to ensure that what the Jubilee Administration talks about is implemented. The annuity programme is talked about but there is no implementation so far. We are almost in the third year of this administration. They need to be a little bit more careful. Let me talk about the agricultural sector. I do not want to repeat what my colleagues have said. The dream of realising one million acres under irrigation will not be realised at the pace at which we are going."
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