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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kubai Iringo",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Motion. Noting that this House is a budget-making body in this great country of Kenya, we should put our foot down so that whatever we decide here is not changed in any way. Let me commend the Chairman of the Budget and Appropriations Committee and his team for the work they have done as they burnt the midnight oil to come up with these proposals. Indeed, so far so good. Nobody can be perfect. Nobody can do everything to the best. That is why these Estimates are brought to the House for us to debate and share so that we can make amendments where possible. The Budget has tried to capture so much. Most of the pending bills which have been there have been considered. If we do not pay our bills, then the country will be internally indebted. I can see the Chairman and the Committee trying their best to absorb most of the pending bills so that they can be paid. It is the onus of the ministries which get this money to be prudent enough. They should be realistic enough. They should put their foot forward and utilise those funds as per the allocation and, more so, make sure that there is 100 per cent absorption of the same. We need to look at the aspects of corruption and guard against wastage. I am happy that the Budget is taking care of the dilapidated roads, especially this time after the rains. The amount of Kshs30 million per constituency will cushion us from the problems affecting us in the constituencies, especially repair of the roads which were washed away during the rains. We have CIDC. There was a deduction of Kshs700 million and yet we want to change our curriculum so that we can train our youth so that at least we can produce experts and not just bookworms from the universities. So, reducing this Kshs700 million was a big blow to the education sector, especially at the constituency level. I request the Chairman and the Committee to rescind their decision and bring an amendment to that one. On the same token, we needed the Budget to address the shortage of teachers. To date, we are talking of a shortage of almost 80,000 teachers in our country. We need teachers to teach our children. We know all the children who did their KCPE. All of them were absorbed in our day secondary schools. If we do not factor that funding that would be used to train the teachers, then we will be doing a lot of disservice to our country. The TSC should not complain that it does not have money to employ more teachers. However, I think they need more funding. With regard to NYS, this is an institution which had been given too much. It had bitten too much that it could not chew. Therefore, I commend the Committee for reducing the same by 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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