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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Muhia",
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        "legal_name": "Wanjiku Muhia",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker. I am very happy that time has been on my side because this is the first Budget Policy Statement (BPS) which the women representatives are going to contribute to and they have some positive results. I am very happy for the Budget and Appropriations Committee to have considered the Women Representatives through the affirmative action. In this regard, I wish to point out the issue of the Kshs3 billion. This House has to style up and stand up beyond cheap politics. Every time people think of mischievous reasoning. Even very senior Members who should be examples to us first time Members, every time they think that some money is going to benefit a particular Member. The Members who are claiming that the Kshs3 billion will benefit Committee Members are not seeing the common mwananchi who will benefit from that money. That is why the Women Representatives have lagged behind for the last close to three years without any money because the same hon. Members have been thinking that, that money will benefit the Women Representatives individually. I wish to point out that the issue having been explained by one Member from the Budget and Appropriations Committee, it is clear that this money does not belong to the Members of the Budget and Appropriations Committee. It belongs to the issues that shall be raised by the common mwananchi. Members of the Committee are not the ones to initiate programmes. The mwananchi from Nyandarua County will say they are suffering because of lack of water and they need a mega dam and then the Budget and Appropriations Committee shall allocate funds. Members who are arguing should get in touch with the few Members from Budget and Appropriations Committee and they will understand it clearly. In the interest of time, I wish to point out that on the issue of education I did not see the Higher Education Loans Board (HELB). I was thinking that children did very well this year and I was expecting that HELB could have been in this BPS. I am wondering what the Ministry had in mind and possibly the Committee may deliberate on that later. I am very interested in the figure of Kshs235 billion. I do not know if this is a typographical error in gender based debts. It is Kshs235billion. I am not so sure if that figure may be correct or it is meant to be Kshs235million. If it is Kshs235 billion, then it is very well particularly because of the affirmative action group. I am very happy to see persons with disability being considered for the first time in this BPS. The Policy indicates there is Kshs297.5 million to register persons with disability. In Parliament, we have a small group which spearheads persons with disability policies. At times we get opportunities to address those issues in the counties but we find a challenge because we cannot identify them as those persons have never been registered. So this money is going to help register those people and at a glance we shall know that there are 200 people with disabilities in Homa Bay County or 1,000 in Nyandarua County. That way they will get opportunities. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I am interested in cash transfers. This money was allocated even last year. Together with other Members, through the Liaison Committee, we went round looking for persons who are disadvantaged or vulnerable and it has been a tall order for the Members. Most of the time Members have been giving their Constituencies 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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