Uhuru Kenyatta

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• 21 Nov 2024 in National Assembly: We have also ensured the seamless transition of learners from primary to junior secondary and domiciled Grades 7, 8 and 9 in primary school, optimizing the use of existing infrastructure, ensuring the safety of young learners and protecting parents from the high costs associated with boarding schools far away. Recognizing the financial challenges faced by our universities and Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET), we introduced a new student-centred higher education funding model. This model gives priority to the most vulnerable students, offering them up to 95 per cent government support, while also pulling our universities back from the ... view
• 21 Nov 2024 in National Assembly: 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. view
• 21 Nov 2024 in National Assembly: To further enhance access to higher education, we launched the Open University of Kenya, and this House approved that exercise, paving the way for more students to achieve their academic goals. The institution's first cohort of students is scheduled to graduate next week, on 29th November, 2024. Hon. Members, Universal Health Coverage (UHC), is the cornerstone of our transformation agenda and a matter that touches every Kenyan family. Despite Health being a devolved function, we acknowledge the immense financial burden that comes with health. Counties have struggled with shortages of medicine, equipment, and sometimes staff, hindering service delivery and leaving ... view
• 21 Nov 2024 in National Assembly: due to a combination of prolonged drought, declining local productivity due to inadequate support and disruptions in the global supply chain caused by the war in Europe. Kenya faced a crossroads of extremely difficult choices, where defaulting on our obligations would have significantly worsened an already perilous situation, and more borrowing was not an option. It was, therefore, essential for us to drastically reduce expenditure, mobilise as much as possible resources domestically and curtail waste. As I informed the nation then, matters would get more difficult before they could get better and we all had to tighten our belts and ... view
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• 21 Nov 2024 in National Assembly: Health delivery is not just about fulfilling a constitutional mandate followed by whatever level of government. It is about ensuring that healthcare is not a privilege for the few who can afford and a pipe dream for the many that cannot. For years, National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) was saddled with debts and inefficiencies, and healthcare was being severely and negatively impacted. For far too The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate. view
• 21 Nov 2024 in National Assembly: This intervention will see a projected increase in maize production, for example, to a record 74 million 90-kilogramme bags. We have also concluded long-term agreements with 11 suppliers of assorted fertilisers to make this commodity available all year round. Fertiliser for the long rain season will be stocked in outlets nationwide ensuring our farmers are ready to plant, grow and produce. This forward momentum will not only increase our agricultural output, but also reduce our reliance on costly food imports, securing a more self-reliant and a more prosperous Kenya. This approach, rooted in my administration's policy to support production rather ... view
• 21 Nov 2024 in National Assembly: long, too many households have lived on the edge, just one inch less away from financial catastrophe. Our healthcare system has historically neglected the poor and vulnerable, leaving them without any option, while private sector medical coverage remained out of reach for the majority. This is precisely what we will correct through the provision of universal health coverage. This agenda is not just about a promise; it is about a bold commitment to deliver health through transformative financing reforms, making healthcare accessible and affordable, digitizing our healthcare services to enhance efficiency, eliminate fraud and stop corruption, and to empower a ... view
• 21 Nov 2024 in National Assembly: Other strategic interventions include the extension of duty-free imports for feed manufacturing raw materials, subsidized Artificial Insemination services and the reduction of sexed semen costs from Kshs7,000 to Kshs2,900 through the Kenya Animal Genetic Resource Centre. view
• 21 Nov 2024 in National Assembly: 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. view