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    "id": 554831,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Losiakou",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Losiakou David Pkosing",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to make my contribution and specifically support the Motion as amended. Today, the country will know that the National Assembly is for them. It is also today, in my opinion, that the counties will know that we are for them. As we support this Motion, I would like to seek some clarification a bit from the Budget and Appropriations Committee. They have done a great job but we would like them to make some clarifications. That is particularly on page 3 of the report and on the amendment. They are saying that they are removing Kshs600 million from the Uwezo Fund. This is the case and yet it came the other day and our people are still expecting it. So, when you remove that money, we need some clarification on whether we still have more money. Secondly, if you look at page 5 of the Report, you will find that there are some money for youth polytechnics being reduced. We would like to clarify that this does not affect our Technical Training Institutes (TTIs) that were just established the other day. The TTIs are very important particularly for rural areas. I wanted to make a contribution in the morning but this is the right time. There was a very big problem today that we have solved. I would like to make suggestions on how we should move forward, particularly on the issue of mediation. Last year, we had mediation, this year we have mediation and next year we will have mediation. We have made a resolution which should be carried forward; that whoever contributes to the problem that will bring us to mediation will carry the burden. Today, we have made our brothers in the Senate carry the day. If Kenya wanted to know who the big brother is then we have made a big statement today that this is the big brother and the other one is a small brother. We were wondering, and that is why we were supporting the removal of Kshs1 billion from Senate; that if the Senate wants to do oversight, the National Assembly is also doing oversight. What was that money going to do if we are doing oversight? Does that mean that, next year, the National Assembly will also want Kshs1 billion to oversight the National Government? The country is very much aware that Senators were going to use the Kshs1 billion for campaign to become Governors. We know some of them have declared interest for governorship. An example is Nairobi. These guys were going to use this money to go round and do campaigns. This is the best thing we have done to this country. I am sure wherever they are, Governors are clapping for us and they are saying that we have 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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