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    "content": "National Examinations Council (KNEC). Their results could be cancelled and leave them hanging. Madam Temporary Speaker, the biggest challenge is the Cabinet Secretary (CS) for Education, Science and Technology and the Chairperson of the TSC. They went to court and decided on the figure. Did they not figure out that they were going to court but could lose the case? That bothers many parents yet they go on with normal business assuming that all is well. Another challenge is the issue of the Government not being very firm on Members of the National Assembly. You cannot continue building schools yet you have no idea where you will get the human resource, how to manage and even get salaries for them. Now we are in a crisis. The best we can do as Parliament is to ensure that Kshs25 billion is taken from the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) to the national Government. The money should go across the board to ensure that all civil servants get a pay rise. The Constitution states that Parliament shall monitor projects being done but not to implement the same projects. Madam Temporary Speaker, it is time we stood with that. I support the Majority Leader in the National Assembly for saying that it is time the CDF cleared this mess. However, the President should let people know that we have small budgets although the Government has an obligation to ensure that the CDF is used. Every year, Kshs10billion is added to the CDF. Why do you increase the CDF while governors are also doing the same work? There is no need for the Government to build roads and classrooms and give out bursaries when governors are doing the same. This is duplication and waste of resources which we work hard for. If we used resources that we have in this country well, no Kenyan would cry for a better salary. We have decided to misuse our own public resources. We go for trips which are not even necessary. Why should we benchmark while we can do most of the things in our country? Uganda should benchmark in Kenya because we are better off. It does not make sense to go to Uganda and Tanzania to benchmark yet we are more advanced than them. Madam Temporary Speaker, Members of the National Assembly should have called for a meeting very fast because the Constitution has given them the mandate to ensure that every budget in this country works. They should have called for a meeting to decide where money would come from. They unnecessarily allocated Kshs13 billion for irrigation. We reminded them that that was unnecessary because for the last three years, only Kshs3 billion has been spent. However, no one and especially the national Treasury listened. That money should be given to teachers. There are many areas in the Budget we could get money to do what is right. As Parliament, it is time we agreed that our duty is to legislate. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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