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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Katoo",
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        "legal_name": "Judah Katoo Ole-Metito",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to second the Appropriation Bill (National Assembly Bill No.15 of 2017). The Appropriations Bill has two columns. One is for Recurrent Expenditure and the other one is for Development Expenditure. Let me talk about the national Government money. We have county governments, the Legislature and the Judiciary, each being independent and interdependent of each other. I will briefly rush through some votes of the Central Government on development. The first one is Vote D63 on education and Kshs6.292 billion has been allocated to it without mentioning the AIA of Kshs114 million. This goes both in primary and secondary education. I think the focus of the Jubilee administration is to see secondary education becoming affordable or becoming free beginning 2018, notwithstanding the fact that primary education is free. We want it to be of quality. I believe that in this Budget there will be need for an increase of primary school teachers in order to have a lesser ratio of pupils to one teacher; probably a ratio of 1:40 per class, therefore, making primary education to be of good quality. The Jubilee administration is also trying to make secondary education affordable. However, most importantly, because of this issue of drought, we need to reintroduce the School Feeding Programme in both our primary and secondary schools. That will bring down the cost of education, especially in secondary schools because the money which goes to food will now be reduced from the burden of parents. Therefore, the Government needs to reconsider the reintroduction of the School Feeding Programme, especially in boarding schools. Still on education, we need to have quality. We now have the curriculum support officers. Actually, their national representatives were in the Speaker’s Chambers this afternoon and we also have quality assurance officers for purposes of monitoring and keeping the standards that are required in schools. I think they need to be facilitated mostly at the district level. We need to make them mobile. We need to have a good budget for them to follow up the need for quality assurance and standards in our education sector. Down to Vote D1064, the Jubilee administration had come with a promise in its manifesto of having Technical Training Institutes (TTIs) in each and every constituency. I think this being the last Budget for the Jubilee administration in their first term it will be good to ensure that all those constituencies that do not have those TTIs are included in this Budget. Finally, there is need to fund research in our universities so that they can offer market- oriented courses because that is a requirement now. If we want to eradicate the problem of unemployment, then we need to adequately fund our universities to enable them do research. If we do that, we will have market-oriented courses. Vote D1152 is about the energy sector. I think this administration is doing quite well in diversification of our energy be it electricity, solar or exploration of coal which is going on in 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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