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"content": "When you say that you have created a special mitigation programme and pick up the few animals from poor farmers, and then you do not pay them, it is unfair. That is not what we felt our Government could do to livestock keepers. There are mothers who had only one animal, which they gave to the Government. Their intention was to pay school fees, including national examination registration fees, for their children. Unfortunately, there are many children in Northern Kenya who are going to miss this yearâs national examinations, having missed the registration exercises, because they could not pay the requisite fees. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, the new Constitution has created two levels of governments â the national and the county governments. I appreciate the fact that the creation of those two levels was informed by the needs on the ground. People felt that there has been discrimination for many years and thought that by creating county governments, resources will be devolved and information sharing as well as everything else will be devolved. My worry is on women representation in the National Assembly. Forty-seven women will come to the National Assembly directly from the counties upon their election, but can we bring on board the one-third representation that is required by the Constitution? The one-third rule gives us a chance to bring to the National Assembly 60 more women. However, there is no formula in place. People out there have already sensitized the communities and told them that the open constituency seats are fixed seats for men, and that women cannot contest them. Therefore, we are asking the Government to go out there and launch civic education programmes to tell Kenyans that women and men are eligible to contest those seats, so that we do not have a constitutional crisis, come the next Parliament. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, we have a Constitution which has an expanded Bill of Rights. If we want to appreciate and respect our new Constitution, I plead with the President to re-think his idea of not signing the Indemnity (Repeal) Bill, which we passed in this House. If the President does not sign the Bill, we will not have the requisite goodwill from him for us to participate in the truth, justice and reconciliation process that is going on. The existence of the Indemnity Act will block the Commission from carrying out its work. I want to conclude by touching on the Kazi kwa Vijana (KKV) Programme. The KKV is a noble idea which was initiated by our Government. It is a programme which was meant to empower the youths of this country. Unfortunately, the programme did not address the intended purpose. I was privileged to go round the country to see how the programme was being implemented, because I sit in a Committee, which I chair, and which directly oversees such programmes. If you go to the ground and talk to the people, you will find that all the youths are very happy that such a programme was initiated but the problem is that the programme has not addressed the problems it was meant to address and provide the solution it was meant to provide. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, we are now in the budgeting process. The new Constitution is very clear on how this process is supposed to be conducted. Unfortunately, we are still continuing with our traditional ways of doing things. As it is now, we are doing the budgeting process in the old ways we are used to. People have talked about the issue of IDPs. The IDPs issue is a shame to our society. I have also gone round IDPs camps, and I know that they are suffering. I have tabled in this House a Report of my Committee, which contains recommendations regarding the IDPs issue. However, nobody has touched that Report. As a Committee, we were mandated by this House to go out and establish the facts but, to-date, despite our recommendations, nothing has been done about the IDPs. It is unfortunate that our people are still in the camps. Honestly, during the ongoing budgeting process, we need to ensure that monies for settlement of IDPs are reflected in the Budget. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to support."
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