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    "id": 643854,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Kering",
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        "legal_name": "Zipporah Jesang Kurgat Kering",
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    "content": "I also want to focus on the money allocated to pay pension to retired teachers. At least this Bill has recognised the retired teachers. They are going to get something. As we talk about the retired teachers, we also need to see where the current teachers are in this Bill. It has become a song. Teachers have to go to the streets for their issues to be addressed. I believe the plight of the active teachers will be heard. I also want to comment on the money that is allocated for irrigation and buying fertilizer. All the voters, and especially women, are really crying about water. We know that this is a devolved function. A lot of money is going to the governors. As a supporter of devolution, I think we need to do a lot of oversight because money goes there and no woman has received piped water as promised. We know money is there. We need to do something so that we do not just allocate money and not make a follow-up. On the money allocated to buy fertilizer, I come from an area where literally everybody needs fertilizer. Unfortunately, the beneficiaries of the fertilizer that goes to the National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB) are the businessmen. Where is the local woman placed? We give large quantities of fertilizer to the businessmen who sell it at a very high price that the local woman cannot afford. As I finish, I want to say that we need to wake up to our duty to oversee how all this money that we give to the county governments is spent. We want to see what the money that has already been given has done in those counties before we allocate more money. I congratulate my colleagues for constituting a board that is going to oversee the money going to the old persons. However, I still urge them to put up structures and find a way of explaining to the old persons how this money is given out. It looks like another body is giving the money. The Committee has been constituted but old people still ask about the money that has been allocated to them. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity. I support the Bill."
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