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    "speaker_name": "Hon. ole Sankok",
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        "legal_name": "David Ole Sankok",
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    "content": "important because as a country and as a House, that is given authority by our Constitution to oversee the Executive, whenever we realise that there are loopholes of wastage of public funds, we should fire the first shot by reducing their budget. The reduction of the NYS funds was directed to the empowerment of our youth especially in training. We have realised, as a country, that we have invested so much on social protection strategies leaving out empowerment in terms of training of our youth. We have had the Youth Enterprise Development Fund, the Uwezo Fund and other funds that target economic empowerment of the youth forgetting that training the youth is more important than giving them cash or loans. Some of the resources were reallocated to the National Industrial Training Authority (NITA) so that we can train our youth in terms of carpentry, plumbing and electrical training. As a country, we have fallen short of some of these skills during the reign in which we concentrated so much on higher education and degree courses in university. We forgot about the middle level colleges. At the moment, this country is importing things like furniture from countries like China and the United Arab Emirates, which are located in the desert. It is because we lack the manpower. So, the reallocation of these funds to training of our youth is a very impressive strategy to empower our youth. According to the Constitution, Mr. Rotich will be in this House on 14th of this month to tell the House of the strategies of raising revenue to make sure that this Budget is fully funded. I also want Mr. Rotich to come up with strategies of making sure that the raised revenue is protected. If we do not protect the revenue that we raise from our citizens and we have mega corruption like what we have witnessed in the recent two months at the NYS, Kenya Power Company and the maize scandal at the National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB), we will raise a lot of money from the poor Kenyans, but still lose the money to corrupt cartels. We should put strategies in place to protect this revenue. I was also very much impressed by the allocation of Kshs30 million to each constituency for the repair of roads. We know we have had enhanced rainfall which has destroyed our infrastructure. So, it was very impressive to learn that we have allocated Kshs30 million for the repair of roads and other infrastructure. I am also a happy man because none of all those companies that were mentioned in the mega corruption scandals and all those cartels that were mentioned in graft are owned by a person living with disability. No company which is associated with a person living with disability was mentioned. Hon. Speaker, I seek your indulgence to give direction to ministries, departments and agencies of the Government to allocate more tenders to persons living with disability because they are very clean people. They are not corrupt. We have six million Kenyans living with disability and none of them was mentioned in the corruption scandals."
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