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    "id": 878700,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": "brought here. Even as you go through it, I am not sure that the authors of the document have been listening to the political leadership. When you look at the manifesto and what the leadership is talking about, in terms of the intentions and the political pronouncements that have been made, and then you look at the BPS, you see total discrepancy. And I will give examples. One of the key enablers of the Big Four Agenda is technical training of our youth who will work in the manufacturing sector, who will be constructing the houses, who will help in the revitalisation of agriculture and food security. These youth are to be trained through the technical and vocational education institutions, the TVETs. We have done very well in terms of recruiting the youth. It is expected there will be 262,000 trainees within our technical training institutions across the country. The leadership has also gone ahead and said each of these youth will be given a capitation of Kshs30,000 and loan from the Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) of Kshs40,000. So, the total training cost of each of these trainees is estimated at Kshs70,000 per year. If you multiply that Kshs70,000 by the 262,000 expected, there should be a provision or an indication of how Kshs18.3 billion will be provided within the estimates. But the BPS talks of Kshs3 billion. So, where will the Kshs15 billion come from? It is either we are telling the youth that they will get capitation when there is no capitation provided. If it is not captured in the BPS, how do we expect that the youth that will join the technical training institutions will get their capitation? Look at the post-training department within the Ministry of Education. I am just looking at those two as examples of some of the discrepancies. We have been telling the youth that on finishing their training, they will actually get apprenticeship programmes and some stipend. The total budget allocation for the department that is supposed to be provided is only Kshs165 million, which is mainly for administration. Where is the Kshs800 million that is required for at least the first batch of trainees to get apprenticeship allowances? When you look at some of those things, it creates a situation that we are moving into business mode as usual. The BPS that was there last year, just change a few figures and give it to Parliament to approve because it is going to approve anyway. Does this provide the proper basis for preparing our Budget Estimates? As the Committee notes on page 19 that once we approve this today, it will provide the basis for the estimates that will be brought here. If Kshs15.5 billion for just one ministry is missing, surely what are talking about in terms of how realistic the Budget would be given that the basis on which it is prepared is itself shaky? I also want to echo the sentiments of the Committee on the stalled projects. What I am worried about is that once we have stalled projects and we had lots of them in the late 1990s as we came to Government in 2002 – if you remember all those National Youth Service projects, the headquarters and others. There were lots of buildings and projects that were scattered all over the country. If it is stalling because of reallocation of money to other priority areas, then we are basically saying we were not serious in the first place in terms of identifying which projects we need to do. Even the ones we are starting, how sure are we that in two to three years’ time they will not become stalled projects?"
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