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    "id": 749075,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kimaru",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Mutahi Kimaru",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I would like to add my voice to the voices that have spoken before. Talking about a scandal like the NYS one, as a nation and as leaders of this nation, we must stand firm and rebuke the kind of behaviour that we have witnessed. It is, indeed, sad for us, as a country, to see a situation where a couple of thugs come together, concoct a scandal and siphon billions of shillings out of public coffers. I remember vividly when we passed the Budget. I saw an allocation of Kshs28 billion as an addition to the NYS Fund. At the back of my mind, I was wondering why we were pumping all that money into the NYS Vote. It did not make any sense to me. Some people told me that this was one of the flagship projects that were supposed to transform this nation. At that point, I had no idea how this transformation was going to happen. However, I was willing to beat time and learn how this would happen. We had the pilot project in Kibra, which on the face value, looked like an excellent model of transforming the economy of this nation. The idea was indeed brilliant. If implemented as it was thought out, it would have done wonders. The implementation, however, was short-term in execution. We saw more of the youth being paid to carry out manual jobs. For the short period of time that this happened, the youth were able to put bread on their tables, but was this going to have any long-term gains? If you pay each youth between Kshs300 and Kshs500 per day for six months, they get used to it. They develop some kind of dependency on those payments, but after six months, you leave them high and dry without a source of livelihood. You leave them with dreams that are shattered and with hopes that were false. To that extent, as much as the scheme was said to have been very well thought out, it did not serve this country well. I would rather we had a scheme that would have had long-term effects. If the Kshs50 billion or Kshs60 billion that was supposed to be put into the NYS Vote had been invested wisely, it would have had a lasting impact on this nation. I was lucky to have the NYS programme in my constituency. There are so many things that were not done. We were supposed to have a dispensary, a social hall, a police station and a posho mill was to be built. I thought it wise to have the projects spread across the five wards in my constituency, but nothing happened at all. We were supposed to have five chicken projects for youth groups, but nothing happened. A 25-kilometre murram project was to be implemented, but nothing happened. Where did all that money go? This disappointment was not just felt in my constituency. It was felt in all the other constituencies that the NYS visited. Were these projects supposed to have been duplicated? Why were the projects kept as top secret? 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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