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"content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I also wish to support this Motion so long as the CDF is factored in the Supplementary Estimates. At the moment, I will not support it if this is not done, because this is the money which has made a lot of difference in the lives of the people of Kenya. The CDF has made much more difference in the lives of the majority of the people of this country than any other devolved fund from any other Government department or Ministry. While I commend the Minister for running a very sound micro-management system of our economy, and thus enabling the economy to grow to the current level, I believe that this should be the last time he has brought Supplementary Estimates to the House. In future, he should bring Supplementary Expenditure, based on surplus. What he is simply doing is denying the economy the ability to grow and create jobs for our children. Seventy per cent of Kenyaâs population is composed of youths. Where are they going to get employment from? We will only end up with riots every year, leading to destruction of what we are trying to build, simply because we are not providing for the youths of this country. So, every programme that has been given to a particular Ministry to run should have been run properly such that the money provided is used for the purposes it was provided for. When we re-allocate money from a department or Ministry, it means that those who requested for those funds did not know what they were doing. They were simply requesting for the money so that they could have it with them. Ministries that re-allocate money from the accounts that they have should actually be considered in the next financial year. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am yet to see rehabilitation of forests taking place, in particular I am talking about the Mau Forest. Last time there was a big row between the Prime Minister and the Minister for Finance on who is telling the truth. The people in my constituency and other constituencies in the south of Mau have no water to drink. People are migrating to other places simply because people are playing politics with their lives. The most crucial thing for that part of Kenya is to rehabilitate the Mau, so that we can have rain. When we have rain everybody is happy in this country. There are no problems and people can hold rallies and do whatever they are doing. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the issue of the Mau Forest is so crucial. Funds must be allocated and in particular the issue of resettlement of the current IDPs and squatters must be looked into. I want the Minister and the Government to understand that trying to buy land in an area that belongs to other people--- The people of Narok and Kajiado have been marginalized since Independence by the colonialist. They continue now to be marginalized even by the current Government. The Government wants to use taxpayersâ money to cause insecurity in those places. I would urge the Minister for Finance not to allocate money for procurement of land by the Ministry of Lands in areas where this is likely to bring about insecurity. Otherwise, we are doing nothing. We are going back. People will be killed and they will not live in peace in those areas. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, a lot of politics in Kenya today is about the Ocampo Six. I wonder why a country like Kenya which has a problem of health, poverty and so on would spend a lot of money to hold rallies all over the country to incite people. You hear a Minister saying: âIf so and so is locked up in The Hague we will strip naked.â I would like to see all the Cabinet Ministers coming to strip naked here before they tell the women of Kenya to go and strip because somebody has been locked up. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we must be more serious. This issue of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and security is not about one community. Leaders should not turn themselves into tribal chiefs. That is what they are doing as if nobody else matters in this country. Let them go and answer for whatever crimes they have committed, if they have done any, or come back home, so that we can all develop this country. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, on the issue of droughts, we see on television women who have no food. They just lie on the ground waiting to die. It is a shame that we are spending a lot of money dealing with issues that are not related to the development of the society. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, our duty under the new Constitution is to ensure that our people have enough food to eat. Whenever they are, they have the right to survive. However, nobody seems to care about these people. I would have wished to see more allocation going to drought mitigation and buying of livestock for those people who lost them or even restocking them. More funds are needed to feed our people who are dying because of hunger. Surely, that is a moral duty. It is a duty that every government must meet, otherwise, the whole world today knows people in Kenya are dying because of poverty. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we must learn to grow this economy. Every time we talk about Kenya being a very important country for investment, but we are yet to change the laws to try and address this matter. Many investors are relocating to other countries where there are friendly laws which are conducive for investment. Here we are not addressing some of these issues. It is time that Members of this House should really consider ensuring that any development in this country must take priority much more than the case now whereby we are using a lot of money to address a lot of issues. Today the police have been allocated a lot of money in the Supplementary Estimates. I support this because unless we have a police force that is able to protect this country, we will not be able to do much. I would like to see the Minister buy them security equipment and other facilities. He should also use some of these funds to retrain our police officers because the nature of warfare has actually changed. We are dealing with people who are well trained in organized crimes, terrorism and so on. We should also motivate them so that they are able to do their work knowing that their families are comfortable. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, with those few remarks, I wish to support on condition that the Minister will withdraw this Motion and incorporate CDF money."
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