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    "content": "since it is the beginning. Nonetheless, I support the move to increase the 4 per cent. My areas of contribution will be concentrating more on the additional Conditional Allocation to county governments, which I think has moved very well. Madam Temporary Speaker, I would like to touch on the issue of additional Conditional Allocation for Rehabilitation of Youth Polytechnics, which is Ksh2billion. In the write-up, this is the second year of allocation. I agree with my colleagues who have spoken earlier, that, however much we release funding to county governments, unless we have a structured way of oversight, we may just be releasing money without realizing exactly what has been done. Although I support that there is need for rehabilitation of the youth polytechnics, especially as we look forward to increasing our technical staff towards Vision 2030, it is very important that we look back and ask ourselves what exactly the first year allocation did. Hence, the importance of this Senate which has a role of doing oversight. Oversight is a very noble task and should be accepted, not only by the Legislature, but also the Executive. Our governors must come to the realisation that even a need to have an internal audit in any organisation is to enable it have prudent management of its resources. Therefore, having a Senate to do oversight is extremely important so that we check ourselves and ensure that we keep looking back and forward, even as we allocate resources for these noble tasks. When it comes to the issue of youth polytechnics, the question that arises is that this is for equipping technical and vocational centres as well as capitation for students. I support the capitation for students because unless you support them and fees is paid for them, it is very difficult for parents to pay. Most parents are concentrating on secondary schools and until we realise a fully free secondary school education, parents will ignore these youths who have completed secondary or even primary school and have no otherwise but to go to these technical and vocational training centres. When I look at Uasin Gishu as a county, the distribution of the youth polytechnics is so erratic that if we concentrate on equipping those which are already built, then we are going to have a problem with sub-counties that do not have youth polytechnics to begin with. Therefore, it is very important that we again relook at how this funding can be used. In future, it is very important that this allocation should be not only for rehabilitation of existing youth polytechnics, but we need to look at those which do not exist. We have sub-counties in this county that do not have a single youth polytechnic. It is so important that we take stock of what we have first and see whether rehabilitation is the word we should be using or we should be enhancing and increasing the number of polytechnics to spread them all over the county. In Uasin Gishu county---"
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