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    "id": 895029,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "to county governments. The only other money that should be divided from the NG-CDF should go to bursaries, which is still in education. If most of these resources were put on education, we should not have this problem of Kenyans studying under a tree. That is something that needs to be emphasized. Madam Temporary Speaker, this Government has also emphasized on the need to have vocational training institutes. Most Technical Training Institutes (TTIs) are now operating across the country. This is giving hope to many young people, some of whom did not progress beyond Standard Eight or Form Four, but they are now getting necessary skills. Those technical skills are the ones now driving our economy. Something else that was captured by the President is engagement on the international front. We must give credit to President Uhuru Kenyatta; I do not think there is any other President who, in a short period of time, has had this level of diplomacy. He has been marketing Kenya and signing agreements that are related to investments in this country; getting support from the international community and opening markets for our country in places like Ethiopia, Namibia and Uganda. I was part of his delegation when the President visited the United States of America (USA). He has also visited Canada, France, China, and the United Kingdom (UK), among others. Building of these relationships has helped a great deal to ensure that our country prospers even on the international front. Madam Temporary Speaker, there are two things that I also want to point out. The President emphasized the importance of the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI). This initiative is good for sanitizing the politics of our country and ensuring that people are able to work together to achieve national development. This is a very noble task that the President embarked on together with the leader of Opposition, and all of us who are involved in this process. This is something that we must laud the President for. Madam Temporary Speaker, I have known President Uhuru Kenyatta from when he started with the Deputy President in 2012. They wanted to unite this country and they have remained on that course. Many people have criticized them, saying that “They are lying to Kenyans and that they just want to survive from the International Criminal Court (ICC).” However, the President and the Deputy President have stuck together all through. Now, as a culmination of that process of uniting the country, His Excellency the President came together with the former Prime Minister, Right Hon. Raila Odinga, to ensure that they have a relationship that builds the country to move forward. Madam Temporary Speaker, what we have been speaking against when it comes to the BBI is the hypocrisy. This unity that we are pursuing in this country must be for everybody. We cannot have our colleagues saying that, “We will work with the President, but we will impeach the Deputy President.” Or, “We will work with the President, but we will remove an MP for working with the Deputy President.” Or, “We will work with the President, but we do not like the people who work with him.” There is no way that you can cherry-pick and say that you will work with this person and not this other person. Yet the President said that this BBI is supposed to bring everybody to the table of conversation so that our country can move forward. Madam Temporary Speaker, secondly, it is the question of corruption. The President captured well; that there is no turning back on matters of corruption. As I have said earlier, corruption is taking our country back. Even when we make an argument of The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
}