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    "id": 729980,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/729980/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nooru",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2238,
        "legal_name": "Adan Mohamed Nooru",
        "slug": "adan-mohamed-nooru"
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    "content": "The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology is getting Kshs21 billion for the FPE and Kshs35 billion for the FSE. The two total to Kshs56 billion. Just 1 per cent of what has been allocated to the two institutions has been allocated to the three critical State Departments. Look at the drought that occurs every year and clears all the herds and livestock which make up almost 50 per cent of the arid and semi-arid land mass. Millions of Kenyans depend on that livestock population. Every year, they become poorer and poorer. They have no market for their livestock because of the disease that has never been looked into. Our veterinarians are not well trained. They are not with the people. We do not know who employs the few veterinary doctors who are there. Their terms of service are very poor. They do not have internship. The whole situation is really wanting. We do not know why we keep mitigating drought when we do not address the issues in the long-term. We always come in for the short-term as an emergency and then run around to look with Kshs5 billion. When the short rains or showers come, that is the end of it. We wait for another drought to come and then we run around and try to mitigate drought. This is very poor planning. We need to look at these issues in totality. The other issue that has been mentioned is the issue of climate change. What are we doing about climate change? What resources have been allocated to this? How have our scientists been motivated and facilitated in terms of looking at the consequences and effects of climate change? We are getting our priorities very wrong. We need to look at the factors and see how best the issue of agriculture and food security can be better addressed than what we are trying to address. This sector employs almost 60 or 70 per cent of Kenyans. The Government is trying to develop the issue of youth for agriculture. Farming has been left to aged mothers and fathers who are 70 to 80 years. The youth are not encouraged to go into agricultural production. There must be some kind of motivation and incentive to encourage our youth to join the agriculture sector. The Government must come up with a proper policy because the issue of youth in every sector that has been tried has failed. It failed in the National Youth Service (NYS). The work for youth has also failed and so, we do not want this one to fail. This could have created job opportunities for our youth. Finally, on the SRC, if you look at the graduates that leave university today to join county governments vis-a-vis the ones who join the Civil Service at the national Government, for example, County Commissioners and their deputies, what are their earnings? You cannot understand whether we work under the same Government or whether these people have gone to the same schools or different schools. There is a lot of disparity. We have a commission that is supposed to harmonise employees’ salaries. 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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