Uhuru Kenyatta

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• 12 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: Currently, there is an urgent need for construction and equipping of more dormitories, classes, and other amenities to further facilitate ease of learning for our children. view
• 12 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: Indeed, conscious of the fact that significant financial resources will be deployed towards the construction of at least 12,500 new classrooms and related school facilities, in that regard, the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Transport, Infrastructure, Housing and Urban Development have been instructed that by 1st December 2020 to issue a new set of building guidelines for school infrastructure that allows the use of appropriate and cost-effective building technologies suited to the varied geographies of our nation. view
• 12 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: The intention of these guidelines will be to achieve transparent and standardised bills of quantity that will guarantee value for taxpayers’ money. For every shilling that we put into school infrastructure, we must seek to obtain more classes built to acceptable standards. view
• 12 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Speakers, the COVID-19 Pandemic began against the backdrop of a steady economic growth rate of 5.4 per cent in 2019. Our focus in implementing the Kenya Vision 2030 and its medium term plan dubbed the “Big Four Agenda” has been bearing fruit. As result, most of the major economic sectors evidenced impressive growth last year, including manufacturing, agriculture, tourism and financial services. However, when it became apparent that the COVID-19 Pandemic threatened to erode the significant economic gains we had made in 2019 and the preceding years, on 25th March, 2020, I, announced State interventions to cushion Kenyans against ... view
• 12 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: 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. view
• 12 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: Fellow Kenyans, Hon. Members and Hon. Speakers, on the state of our economic development, at Article 132 read with Article 10 of our Constitution, I am required to report to Parliament on a wide array of economic, social and relational achievements. I call the sum total of all these achievements our economic development. view
• 12 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Members, economic development is not about intentions and activities; it is about results. It is not about the volume of what we did; it is about the impact of what we achieved. In other words, economic development is the measure of the tangible positive transformation of the wellbeing and quality of life of our people. view
• 12 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: (8) That Kshs6 billion from the Universal Health Coverage (UHC) kitty was to be immediately appropriated strictly towards supporting counties and the recruitment of additional health workers to support in the management of the spread of COVID-19; (9) The lowering of the Central Bank Rate (CBR) from 8.25 per cent to 7.25 per cent, so as to prompt commercial banks to lower interest rates applicable to their borrowers, and thereby availing much needed affordable credit to MSMEs across the country; (10) The lowering of the Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR) from 5.25 per cent to 4.25 per cent, so as to ... view
• 12 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: 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. view
• 12 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: During this year’s reporting, I will focus on four areas of primary thrust and situate the four areas within the broad framework of the Big Four. I must mention from the outset that the Big Four is not a project as many may think of it. view