{"count":1608389,"next":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/?format=json&page=148415","previous":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/?format=json&page=148413","results":[{"id":1502332,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1502332/?format=json","text_counter":249,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Kwanza, FORD-K","speaker_title":"Hon. Ferdinand Wanyonyi","speaker":null,"content":". The youth have gone to Haiti. Through reports of what is happening, I can assure you the world now respects this country. With the Americans, we are taking part in bringing harmony to Haiti. Last and not least, I also want to mention agriculture. In addition to what I am doing here, I am a farmer. My colleagues have mentioned sugar. The President has stabilised the price of sugar. He told us the 17 factories that were almost collapsing have now been revived. I take this opportunity to thank him and ask him to continue helping us have some of these sugar factories revived. Those are job opportunities for our boys, girls and the entire Kenya. I am told there will be programmes to export sugar. We have been importing sugar. We will now be able to export sugar particularly to areas like South Sudan and even Ethiopia. His Excellency is doing pretty well with that programme. He should continue doing that. The other thing is the revival of the KCC that had a problem with the New Kenya Cooperative Creameries (NKCC). He has a plan to import milk coolers. I can tell you that I am a beneficiary of the same. We will now have enough milk to export to the Middle East. Milk to the Middle East comes from Uganda instead of getting it from our country as it used to be. The revival of the KCC is another thing he mentioned. I say heko to him. I hope he continues that way. We will by all means support him to get some of these things implemented to the letter. I support his State of the Nation Address. It was very right. I want him to come back and tell us more."},{"id":1502333,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1502333/?format=json","text_counter":250,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Farah Maalim","speaker_title":"The Temporary Speaker","speaker":{"id":16,"legal_name":"Farah Maalim Mohamed","slug":"farah-maalim"},"content":" Where is the Member of Parliament for Imenti Central? He is not in the House. Under the circumstances, I will call the MP for Lari to contribute. The MP for Kinangop will be next, followed by the MP for Sotik and others. Order, Hon. Mburu. Did I say that you will be followed by Hon. Pareyio? Hon. Pareyio will be after you. Proceed."},{"id":1502334,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1502334/?format=json","text_counter":251,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Lari, UDA","speaker_title":"Hon. Kahangara Mburu","speaker":null,"content":" Thank you for allowing me to comment on the State of the Nation Address that happened on Thursday last week. From the beginning when he took over Government, the President explained to Kenyans that we came in at a time without money. We had very many debts and there was a ballooning wage bill. There was no money for development. Our debt as a country had hit about Ksh11 trillion and repayment was due. The President understood that and explained it. He is a listening President. Kenyans have been complaining that there is no money and that they do not have money in their pockets. They have been wondering whether we have a listening Government or even whether the leadership understands the kind of problems that they are going through."},{"id":1502335,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1502335/?format=json","text_counter":252,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Lari, UDA","speaker_title":"Hon. Kahangara Mburu","speaker":null,"content":"The President explained that he has listened to Kenyans. He knows Kenyans have had very difficult moments but he has had to follow the right path to ensure that, as we move into the future, the country is going to be stable economically where people can earn a living and have money in their pockets in order to support their families. The President said that we would no longer subsidise consumption but production. By subsidising consumption, we were simply giving money to millers, who are very few, while Kenyans were suffering on this other end. When this Government came into power, we realised that even the money for subsidies had"},{"id":1502336,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1502336/?format=json","text_counter":253,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Lari, UDA","speaker_title":"Hon. Kahangara Mburu","speaker":null,"content":"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."},{"id":1502337,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1502337/?format=json","text_counter":254,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Lari, UDA","speaker_title":"Hon. Kahangara Mburu","speaker":null,"content":"not been paid. The money for unga and fuel had not been paid. It is this Government that has borne the problem of paying the debts that were left behind. So, the President subsidised fertiliser and this enabled Kenyans to go to their farms and as a result, we have been able to put food on the table. We can say without fear that, indeed, the cost of living is going down. Remember a packet of unga was going for Ksh200. It has now gone down to between Ksh100 to Ksh120. The cost of fuel and cooking oil was also very high. Today, cooking oil has come down almost three times. That means that the steps that were taken by the Government, as the President explained, have borne fruits and Kenyans are looking to a better future."},{"id":1502338,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1502338/?format=json","text_counter":255,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Lari, UDA","speaker_title":"Hon. Kahangara Mburu","speaker":null,"content":"On the issue of health, we had NHIF. Under NHIF, we had a clinic in Nairobi that was claimed to have done more surgeries than Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH). That means that the money that was being contributed by Kenyans into NHIF was actually being stolen. The Government is now trying to streamline the same and ensure that Kenyans are able to get affordable healthcare. That means that we do not have to go to Harambees again looking for money to pay for hospital bills because when everybody is incorporated in SHA, it means that we are going to have enough money to pay the bills. So, I encourage Kenyans and the people of Lari Constituency, who I represent, that we are going to go around ensuring that we are all registered so that we no longer have to do Harambees . We are going to have hospital bills paid by the Government."},{"id":1502339,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1502339/?format=json","text_counter":256,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Lari, UDA","speaker_title":"Hon. Kahangara Mburu","speaker":null,"content":"On the issue of education, the Government has employed 46,000 teachers and other 20,000 to be employed as interns. We have confirmed the JSS teachers and we are going to bring in more interns. This means that school fees is going to go down and parents’ burden will be lessened. We have also seen exportation of labour. We have 800,000 Kenyans entering the job market and yet we do not have the jobs. So, for the President to have gone out to look for opportunities means that he is listening and cares about Kenyans especially the youth."},{"id":1502340,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1502340/?format=json","text_counter":257,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Farah Maalim","speaker_title":"The Temporary Speaker","speaker":{"id":16,"legal_name":"Farah Maalim Mohamed","slug":"farah-maalim"},"content":" Hon. Agnes Pareyio."},{"id":1502341,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1502341/?format=json","text_counter":258,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Agnes Mantaine","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"(Narok North, JP) Asante sana Mhe Spika wa Muda kwa kunipa nafasi hii ilinichangie Hotuba ya Mhe Rais katika Bunge hili. Nilisikiliza hiyo Hotuba kwa makini sana. Ningependa kumshukuru Rais kwa vile alizungumza na vile alivyoonyesha kwa makini alichokua akizungumzia. Ningependa kuanza na masuala ya elimu. Hakuna wakati ambao tumeweza kuajiri walimu wengi kama vile tumeajiri. Tumeajiri waalimu 46,000, na tutaajiri wengine 20,000. Hii si kusema kwamba wametosha, lakini ni kuonyesha nia yake kwa elimu ni nzuri. Ninampongeza kwa jambo hilo. Tulikuwa na shida nyingi kwa JSS. Sasa tumeona madarasa yameanza kujengwa. Pia, tukishapata waalimu na madarasa, basi tutakuwa na mwelekeo na tutaendelea kujua vile tutakavyoendelea."}]}