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"content": "Other than that, I am happy that many sectors have been properly taken care of. For instance, in the agricultural sector, coolers which are very useful will be put up in several areas. The other issue is the consideration of JSS teachers. Hon. Temporary Speaker, there has been a problem in the constituencies, but with this provision that has been put in the Budget, many of them will be accommodated in the system. Construction of hostels in TVETs has also been considered. That is very important because most TVETs do not have hostels. Therefore, you find the students moving around looking for accommodation. I am sure that if this is done well, our students will have proper accommodation and will concentrate on their studies. I also want to mention the increase in the energy sector for the purchase of transformers. Some of the areas in this country, particularly the area I come from, do not have adequate power. Those transformers will help lighten those dark areas that we still see in our areas. This is a very important Budget, even though it came at a bad time because of the rejection of the Finance Bill. We still need to take care so that the reduction in some of these areas does not contribute to pending bills. That is because if we increase pending bills, we will be increasing our borrowing. That will affect our deficit. These reductions should be looked into again so that we have adequate funding for some of the ongoing projects so that we do not create pending bills that will increase our deficit. With those few remarks, I wish to support this Supplementary Budget. Thank you."
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"content": " Hon. Jackson Kosgei."
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. At the outset, I support this Motion on the consideration of the Supplementary Estimates I for the Financial Year 2024/2025. I appreciate the Chairman and the Committee for bringing in a mitigative supplementary budget that is going to cushion our expenditure as we collect the revenues in this country to run the Government. I wish to bring to the attention of the House three things. Number one, budget cuts are supposed to guide budgeting towards minimising on non- essential areas and concentrating on essential areas during this time of austerity measures. I wish to join other speakers in saying that even when we exercise that discretion of budget cuts, we should be sensitive to important areas that may not be allowed and yet, they are equally important. We have ministries that, over time in various regimes in the past, have never been considered essential. They include ministries touching on young people. We have had an experience with our younger people expressing themselves and it is time that when we consider our budget, we should increase it in those areas. The Ministry of Sports for example. The other Ministry has got to do with the preservation of our identity as a nation and that is dealing with culture. I happen to be a member of the Departmental Committee and we witnessed how much budget cuts were done on those ministries. These are ministries that touch on essential areas in the management of our country. Therefore, I would wish to request that the Budget and Appropriation Committee reconsider some of the areas where the budget cuts have affected those activities that would have accommodated the needs of our young people. Secondly, there is a consideration of safety features in risk management in our premises as Parliament. Again, I wish to draw the attention of the Budget and Appropriation Committee to whether or not it is available in the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC). I am one of those who consume facilities that require persons with disability to access important exits or entrances into these buildings. There are two areas in this building. When we have students coming up here into the Speaker’s Gallery, the area of entrance and exit is complicated. We would like to have the attention by the Budget and Appropriation Committee to add to this Supplementary Budget The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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"content": "because risk is an issue that can call for attention at any time. The other one is the exit route as discussed yesterday or the day before yesterday which affected us, especially those who are more dependent on assistive devices. It was impossible. Even if my brothers and sisters would have loved to carry us, you would not have saved us and you would not have saved yourselves. So, very important is that, as a matter of urgency, the Budget and Appropriation Committee should include that in the ongoing repairs, including also the services, whether putting up a lift or building a ramp. Finally, I wish to appeal to our children, the Gen. Zs. You realise I was in the…They call it the eye of the storm or? I wish to appeal to them as a father, as a grandparent and as a leader in this country that their voices have been heard. Let them listen to us from Parliament. We have listened to them. The ongoing strikes may no longer serve the purpose of passing the message. It will encourage hooliganism. It can encourage deaths and it can encourage retardation in the development and progress of our country. History is awash with witnesses on alternatives that people have changed their governments. Some, with good intentions, have brought down governments to zero to start again and, by the time they are building their countries, it is about 50 years later. Those who brought down the system will not be there to enjoy what comes thereafter. It is important to appreciate that today in this country we have gone through a great transformation from post-independent leadership to where we are. We have a very responsive system. We have a Constitution that opens the room. There was a time you would not even demonstrate in this country and go home safe. You can do it in Kenya. You can even abuse and insult any leader at your own will. You can talk of things that cannot be accepted in a normal society. You can see how much freedom we have. That is a product of those who came before us and were sensitive in the transformation of Government management. I wish to use this opportunity, as a consumer of disability assets, to say that we cannot encourage the country to open up to civil conflict and violence. This will maim and make others cripples. We will do the same thing that others have done all over again. Generation Z, I wish to speak to you. You have the numbers. My appeal to you is that you prepare for the subsequent elections. Register as voters so that during that time, you translate your intention into votes that can change the direction of this country to what you want. That is the strength we have in this country. As I conclude, I appeal to the Generation Z, who are our children, that we mean well for them. We educated them. We took them to school and gave them the best. That is why they can argue out issues well. Can you listen to us once? Stop the demonstrations. Hon. Temporary Speaker, with those remarks, I support the Motion. Thank you."
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"content": " Thank you very much. Member for Kiambaa, Hon. John Kawanjiku."
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this important Motion on the Consideration of the First Supplementary Estimates for the Financial Year 2024/2025. This was occasioned by the unprecedented events that happened within our nation. The Finance Bill, 2024, was not enacted. However, it is good to note and let the Kenyans know that whatever has been happening within our nation is because of trying to support our Budget from our revenue and gain our sovereignty. We do not have to depend on debts and grants. We should rise to the occasion and support our nation in terms of development and recurrent expenditure. I sit in the Budget and Appropriations Committee. We had looked into all the issues by making sure that we prepare the Budget and, at the same time, prepare means and ways to raise the revenue to support it. On that note, tough times call for tough measures. We looked at the The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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"content": "Budget and cut quite a number of development budgets, so that we could sustain ourselves as a country. We removed what we can live without from the Budget, and funded and supported what we cannot live without, especially in areas that support our people at the bottom of the pyramid. We looked into the issue of JSS because it supports the education sector in our country. Majority of our people can only eliminate poverty in their homes through educating their family members and fellow Kenyans. This will ensure that they gain their confidence and get certificates to take them to the next level. No matter how difficult it is to support the JSS teachers, we decided to cut the budget in other areas and make sure that we have money to employ 46,000 teachers, so that we can support our Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC). This will ensure that we retain as many students in our schools as we can. We had allocated Ksh4 billion to the Coffee Cherry Advance Revolving Fund (CCARF). Because of the difficulties of raising the revenue, we deducted Ksh1 billion and remained with Ksh3 billion. This will support our coffee farmers to continue with coffee farming. The coffee sector has a high impact in our economy. Part of it helps us to generate foreign exchange. The moment we export our coffee to other countries, we retain and gain foreign exchange. This will make sure that our shilling is stronger against the dollar. It will also ensure that we support what we can import and export. On the same note, we retained Ksh2 billion for milk coolers. This will help our dairy farmers to contain and maintain milk in a better form. We have also allocated funds for the farmers and the New Kenya Co-operative Creameries (KCC). This will ensure that every farmer can have minimum guaranteed returns and maintain a Ksh50 sale per litre of milk. Depending on the number of litres a dairy farmer gets every day, he can manage and plan his income because he is guaranteed of the amount of money that he or she will earn. In that way, we will support our local farmers with resources. There is a very serious gap between the farmer, broker and retailer. The New KCC or brokers buy the milk at a very low price of around Ksh40 or Ksh30 per litre. However, one litre of milk in the supermarket is sold at Ksh100 or Ksh120. From this, we realise that the farmer does not benefit from his input to produce that one litre of milk. Therefore, we decided to put a minimum guaranteed returns to secure the farmer and make sure that he or she can benefit from the amount of money that the New KCC sells milk at the market. We also looked at the school feeding programme which is very essential. Even if there was a lot of politics going on about where the school feeding programme should be stationed, as a Committee, we decided not to transfer that service to disaster management. We took it back to the Ministry of Education because they have a better overview and infrastructure to make sure that they distribute those foods to the learners. The moment we transfer the school feeding programme to other State Departments that have no clue and infrastructure to make sure that the food gets to the learners in the arid areas, we will lose it. We thought it was prudent to allocate the money under the Ministry of Education which can decide what to do with it and how to distribute it to make sure that our learners get food in their schools. We all agree that no matter what is happening within our country, we must come back to our senses and support this economy. We do not have any other Kenya. We only have one. Whatever is happening outside there is very demoralising. But we need to tell our fellow Kenyans that going forward, we will make sure that we manage our resources prudently. The Government must deal with wastage conclusively. I support the President on areas that he decided to do away with. We do not need the offices of the First Lady and Second Lady. These are the things that we can deduct and reduce the cost, so that we can support the local manufacturers. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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"content": "There was a lot of misinformation about the Finance Bill, 2024. The issue of supporting the local manufacturer must be key in this Government. We should protect whatever we can manufacture here without importing. We must allocate Government money to help those industries and their infrastructure to grow. We should make sure that the Government supports the local manufacturers, so that we can protect and cushion our Kenya shilling against the dollar. We can only import the things that, for sure, we cannot live without and those that we do not produce as a country. Supporting local manufacturers is key. We should also ensure that we deal with corruption decisively. The President said this afternoon that he is going to propose some amendments to the Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Act and the Public Finance Management Act, so that we can look into the nitty-gritties of how public resources are utilised. We even deducted Ksh30 billion that was to go to counties. We have said it today, that the Senate must do its oversight role as far as county funds are concerned. There is a lot of corruption, misuse, and wastage that is happening in the counties. They forget those monies come from the public. We must make sure that we bring governors to book by making sure that corruption is dealt with. Let people with corruption matters be taken to court within three or four months. Then, we can see some actions happening to people misusing public resources. We are living in tough times. We must make sure we protect the few resources that we have. That is what Kenyans are talking about. That is what Kenyans are saying. That we should make prudent use of the little resources that we have and make sure we deal with corruption and its root cause as far as this Government is concerned. Therefore, I too rise to support the Supplementary Budget Estimate. Thank you."
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"content": " Thank you. I do not want to say this chance goes to the acting Leader of the Minority Party. I mean the one occupying the seat that belongs to the Leader of the Minority Party."
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