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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Katoo",
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        "legal_name": "Judah Katoo Ole-Metito",
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    "content": "budgeting cycle and in the appointments of high ranking State officers through the vetting process, during which they send memoranda to Parliament, or participate through elected leaders. Public participation in governance has really increased, thanks to our new Constitution. However, credit should also go to the President and his administration for not curtailing it and always trying their best to improve public participation. The third issue was about democracy and the rule of law. It has really deepened. This is also a fruit of the new Constitution. As the President said, we are trying to secure our basic rights and the freedom of our people. I want to emphasise what the President talked about, that as much as we have that democracy and the rule of law that has really widened our democratic space, we must remain focused at all times and conscious of the fact that we have to remain a united nation. This is always a call to elected leaders. As we are out there, in and outside Parliament, the comments we make within the democratic space that has deepened must always hold this country as one beloved and united nation. Coming to the projects that the Jubilee Administration has done and done really well over the last two years, my colleagues highlighted them yesterday. There are some things that are worth repeating. One of them is about education. We have very prime projects like the Free Primary Education (FPE). The Jubilee Administration has increased the funds allocated to FPE by a whopping Kshs10 billion. This is something that needs to be congratulated and we are so thankful to the President and his administration for that very big step of ensuring that FPE as well as affordable secondary education is a reality. As he said, the Jubilee Administration also aims at making secondary education free and compulsory in the next five years. Allocating an increase of Kshs10 billion to FPE in the last two years is very commendable. There is also the issue of electricity. It is worth repeating because bringing the cost of electricity in Kenya down is also bringing down the cost of doing business in this country and region. That is what is making us the economic leader in the region. That is why we will host the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in this country and specifially in this city of Nairobi. It is because of being the economic leader in the region. Bringing the cost of electricity down will continue putting our position high in the region in terms of bringing down the cost of doing business. There is an increase of 31 per cent in the generation of electricity over the last two years when the Jubilee Administration has been in office. A 31 per cent increase is not small. I also want to say that even the consumer bills have reduced by 25 per cent.You remember before the Jubilee Administration took over office or power, connection to household electricity was around Kshs70,000 and it is now going to Kshs35,000. There is an aim of bringing it further down. Therefore, that decrease of 25 per cent is something to commend. On schools, if you looked at the Speech of the President, you will see that only 3,000 out of the 21,000 primary schools in the country are not connected to electricity. His Excellency the President pledged that by the end of this month of April, all of them will be connected. Therefore, for the last two years and according to my calculation, 86 per cent of the primary schools in the entire country have been connected to electricity. That achievement is quite commendable. Connection to wananchi’s households has also risen from 26 to 37 per cent over the last two years. That is an achievement that the 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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