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    "id": 801786,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Milemba",
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        "legal_name": "Jeremiah Omboko Milemba",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to make a contribution to this important business in the House today. I first take this opportunity to congratulate the Chairman of the Budget and Appropriations Committee for good work done because they have been in many ways able to simplify the Budget to a level that it can be understood by not only those who are professionals in the sector but also those who are lay in the Republic of Kenya. Let me take this opportunity to make a few comments. This is a budget-making House. Previously, the role of the House was that of rubber-stamping the Budget. I want to draw the attention of the House to the fact that the now declared disaster called corruption which the President is at the forefront fighting, and which we should fight, begins at the moment of budget-making. I sit in the Committee on Labour and Social Welfare. That is where we oversee the institution called the NYS. From what we looked at, this is an institution that has always been given a lot of money but it has the inability to spend this money. That is where the looting of public coffers begins. As a Committee, we moved forward and reduced the budget of NYS by over Kshs8 billion. Now, moving forward, I must report that I know there are moves by authorities from elsewhere to try and lord over the Chairman of Budget and Appropriations Committee. I had a discussion with him this morning. They want the Committee to only reduce the budget of NYS by Kshs2.5 billion. I want to ask hon. Members to be on the lookout. The attempts that we are making in this House in order to sanitise some of these institutions like NYS are bound to be thwarted if we do not stand strong as a House that makes the Budget. I also would like to talk about the budget for education. There is the Big Four Agenda. Education is one of the enabling factors of this Big Four Agenda. When you scrutinise the budget, originally it had been proposed that more teachers would be employed, especially to provide for the 100 per cent transition from primary to secondary. Hon. Members, this affects you exactly where you are because when you go back home, you realize that more primary school kids have elevated themselves to the secondary school level, but there are no teachers at the secondary school level. Therefore, there was a proposal that 16,000 teachers be employed to facilitate the 100 per cent transition from primary to secondary and a further 5,000 teachers as a normal yearly employment. I am happy the Chairman of the Budget and Appropriations Committee is listening. There is no money allocated for the employment of teachers in this Budget. The Budget for the TSC remains the same. Therefore, I will be proposing an amendment that we get money to employ more teachers in our schools in order to enhance the 100 per cent transition rate. Moving forward, there is the issue which I want to support of increasing the money that goes to Kenya The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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