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Ruto Declines Assent, Returns Tax Hikes Finance Bill To Parliament For Reconsideration
Jun 26, 2024
Ruto Declines Assent, Returns Tax Hikes Finance Bill To Parliament For Reconsideration ~ OsazuwaAkonedo #Kenya #Nairobi #Protest #Ruto #Tax #Williams Kenya President, William Ruto Has Returned The 2024 Finance Bill To The National Assembly For Reconsideration. https://osazuwaakonedo.news/ruto-declines-assent-returns-tax-hikes-finance-bill-to-parliament-for-reconsideration/26/06/2024/ #Breaking News Published: June 26th, 2024 Reshared: June 26, 2024 9:07 pm
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Kenya President William R has returned the 2024 finance bill to the National Assembly for reconsideration this was
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revealed in a letter signed by President and M AMU on the president's social media handles on Wednesday evening they
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after several protesters were shot dead when they run into the parament building in attempt to stop the Lomas from passing the proposed tax finance bill
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president Ruto in a nationwide broadcast has said that the intended tax law am to generate billions of Revenue to finance
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and address their burden on the country and create jobs opportunities for the youths according to R the finance bill
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would have enabled him establish ICT centers in all the worlds in Kenya the letter reads in quote whereas a bill
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titled an act of parliament to amend the law relating to various taxes and duties and for connected purposes the short
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title of which is the finance bill 2024 was passed by the National Assembly on the 25th of June 2024 and whereas the
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finance bill 2024 was presented to me for presidential asent in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution
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on the 26th H day of the month of June in the year 2024 taken into consideration of the wipr expression of
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the satisfaction by members of the public on the contents of the finance bill 2024 now therefore in exercise of
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the powers confirmed to me by article 115 1xb of the Constitution and having
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reservations on the contents of the bill in its entirety I declined to Ascent to the finance bill 2024 and refer the bill
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for a consideration by the National Assembly with the recommendation for the deletion of all the Clauses thereof president R in a meeting with religious
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leaders at the State House in Nairobi on Wednesday said we commend our youth for exercising their constitutional rights
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to be involved in the Affairs of their country unfortunately criminals often hijack such initiatives engaging in
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violence and destruction of property this should not silence their voices moving forward we will engage the youth
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and other stakeholders as part of a multisectoral effort to find solutions to issues of national concern at State
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House Kenya Nairobi I met religious leaders drawn from the National Council of churches of Kenya Kenya Coalition of
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church and Ministries and Evangelical Alliance of Kenya we have reported that Kenya Medical Association has confirmed
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that more people are still being treated with serious conscious injuries with 13 of them already pronounced de Simon
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kundu president of the Kenya Medical Association said that the figure of 13 deaths was not the final number recent
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video on Wednesday showed moment some of the protesters were being helped and some still running with one of their hands on their bop cly trying to ease
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themselves of the Pains of the bullets the video also showed that some of the protesters were shot on their boto with
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sounds of gunfire heard repeatedly in quick succession in a warlike situation crowd of protesters run into the
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Parliamentary Building in Nairobi Kenya on Tuesday trying to stop the members of parliament from passing the controversial finance bill 2024 into law
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the lawmakers went ahead and passed the bill on Tuesday and presented it to President William rut to sign it into law the bill is yet to be signed into
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law as agreed Kenyans continued with the protest against the finance bill 2024m to increase taxes in the country the
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parliament passed the bill and escaped the anger of the protesters through on the ground Tel after 195 members of the
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parliament voted in favor for the bill and 106 voted against the bill with three of the total votes SP according to
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eyewitnesses for weeks a lot of Kenyans took to the streets and called for the stoppage of the bill with hashtag reject
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finance bill protests in Nairobi and other towns all over the country a section of the Parliament building was
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also set a BL on Tuesday by the Protestants who appeared to be mostly young people in their youthful age according to videos posted online by eye
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witnesses Kenyan activist om Obama the half sister of former US President Barack Obama was among those te G during
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the protests outside the parliament building in Nairobi police open fire on demonstrators trying to sto the
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legislature resulting in at least 13 deaths dozens of injuries and sections of the Parliament building being set a
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blaz as lers pass a tax raising Bill H Obama interviewed by CNN expressed her
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support for the young Kenyans demonstrating for their rights amidst the chaos Andre Crown broke two police lines to St parliament in the capital
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Nairobi before set parts of it Ablaze according to R's international news agency in an address on Tuesday evening
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President William roter said all me will be deployed to thought any attempts by dangerous criminals to undermine the
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security and stability of our country after he had deployed the military to qu the protests there have also been un
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verified social media reports of dozens of people being shot dead by security officers overnight as well as reports of
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deaths in other areas around the country where there were protests according to local reports from Nairobi unconfirmed
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report indicated that the ceremonial mes symbolizing the authority of the legislature was stolen after the protesters broke into the Parliament
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building certain parts of it are blazed before firefighters arrived and disolated the infer former president
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huru Kenyata launched dialogue saying Kenya's leaders should know that power and authority is donated to them by the
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people parts of rut's report RS in court does police open fire on demonstrators trying to stor Kenya's legislature on
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Tuesday with protesters killed doesn't W and sections of the Parliament building set a blaz as lers inside passed
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legislation to raise taxes in chaotic SS protesters overwhelmed police and chased them away in an attempt to stop the
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parliament compound with Citizen TV reporting protesters had managed to enter the Senate chamber earlier in the day police open fire after tear gas and
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water cannon fell to dispers the crowds a RS journalist countered the bodies of at least five protesters outside
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Parliament a paramedic Vivian aista said at least 10 had been shot dead another
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paramedic Richard amumu said more than 50 people had been wounded by gunfire he was lifted two injured protesters into
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an ambulance outside Parliament police eventually managed to drive the protesters from the building amid clouds
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of tear gas and the sound of gunfire the Lans were evacuated through ground tunnels local media reported internet
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services across the country also experienced severe destructions during the police Crackdown internet monitor net blocks said Kenya's leading Network
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operator safaricom set two on the C cables were out of action causing the ootes protests and clashes also took
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place in several other cities and towns across the country with many calling for President William rut to quit office as
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well as voicing their opposition to the tax Rises parli approved the finance bill moving it through to a third
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reading by Nikas the next step is for the legislation to be sent to the president for signing he can send it
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back to Parliament if he has any objections the finance bill aims to raise an additional 2.7 billion do in
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taxes as part of an effort to lighten the heavy debt load with interest payments alone consuming 37% of annual
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revenue opposition leader Rea oinga called for the finance bill to be immediately and unconditionally
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withdrawn to make way for dialogue I am the stopped at the MERS arrests detentions and surveillance being
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perpetrated by police on boys and girls who are only seeking to be held over taxation policy that are stealing both the present and future he said in a
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statement ch's protests began in a festival like atmosphere both as crowd swelled police fired tear grass in Naomi
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Central business district and the poor neighborhood of CA protesters DED for cover and threw stones at police lines
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people clambered over police vehicles stalled in the downtown streets police also fired tear gas in Elder Brut htown
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in Western Kenya where crowds of protesters filled the streets and many businesses were closed for fear of violence clashes also broke out in the
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coastal city of Mombasa and demonstration took place in kisumu on Lake Victoria and Parisa in eastern
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Kenya where police blocked the main road to somalia's Port of kmu in Nairobi people chanted rut must go and crowds
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sng in swah all can be possible without rut music played from loudspeakers and protesters W Kenyan fls and blue
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whistles in the few hours before the violence escalated R's news report ends in courot meanwhile the United Nations
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Secretary General Antonio VES has urged the Kenyan authorities to exercise restraint while dealing with citizens
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protesting over the finance bill he also called on Kenyans to demonstrate peacefully to avoid confrontations with
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police officers I am deep SED by the reports of deaths and injuries including of journalists and medical personnel
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connected to protests and strength demonstrations in Kenya I urged the Kenyan authorities to exercise restraint
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and call for all demonstrations to take place peacefully stated gues his statement emerged after several people
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were killed when protesters St Parliament buildings on Tuesday foreign Ministry of Uganda government issued a
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statement from campala in Uganda on the 26th of June 2020 4 stating that the newly renovated Uganda house was among
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the properties destroyed by the angry protesters on Tuesday in a statement signed by the permanent Secretary of the
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Uganda foreign Ministry baj Vincent WWA the government of Uganda thaned the Kenya fire department for their quick
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response in putting of the fire baj also stated in the Press statement that none of the Diplomatic or the Consular staff
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were in the building as at the time the Protestants said the Uganda house a blaz adding that the Diplomatic relationship
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between the republics of Kenya and Uganda remained solid in the work of protests in Kenya on June 25th 2024 the
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protesters abandoned the principle of peaceful demonstrations and took the part of destruction of properties where inly reform Uganda house a commercial
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building located on Kenyata Avenue in the Nairobi Central business district was vandalized and set a place the Uganda foreign Ministry
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[Music]
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said when I assumed office 20 months ago our country was
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facing tremendous economic challenges escalating cost of essential
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household Commodities High fuel prices rapid depreciation of the Kenya Shing
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and spiraling public debt were threatening to ground our
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economy my Administration has worked hard and consistently so that today the
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prices of essential Commodities like unaa have dropped from 240 Shillings for
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a 2 kg packet to Kenya Shillings 100 majorly attributed to our fertilizer
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subsidy program the resilience of our farmers and good rains that were given
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to us by God During the period we reduced the price of fertilizer also from 7,500 to
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2,500 petrol prices have come down to from a high of
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2177 to now 187 a liter the Shilling has
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strengthened against the dollar from a high of
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165 to now 127 128 we have made significant progress in
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pulling the nation back from the brink of debt distress our debt situation is better
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managed and our budget now has space for investment and in programs aimed at
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easing the hardship on vulnerable people and creating opportunities for our young
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people our GDP grew by 5.6% last year ranking Kenya among the
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27 fastest growing economies in the world our inflation figures have fallen
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from a high of nine and8 in May last year to 5% in
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April this year it is instructive for the nation to
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know that for every 100 shillings we collect as taxes we spend
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61 Shillings in debt service we have paid Kenya's eurobond debt
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that was borrowed in 2014 of $2 billion that has been hanging around our
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neck we paid the last installment of $500 million last
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week today Kenya's debt burden is much less
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more sustainable and we are on course to redeem our country from the discomfort
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of debt and assert our sovereignty early this year treasury had
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proposed a budget of 4.18 trillion I did
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direct that it be reduced by 200 billion to come down to 3
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3.99 trillion the finance bill
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2024 generated to actualize this budget underwent public public
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participation which resulted to concessions by which we agreed to drop
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proposals on VAT on bread motor vehicle circulation tax VAT on locally
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manufactured diapers and sanitary Parts as well as exis Duty on money transfer
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services among others the additional tax
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measures we had proposed in this year's finance bill were to raise
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money in the tune of 346
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billion when the concessions were were made subsequent to public participation that
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was undertaken by Parliament that came down to 200
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billion I had made this proposal taking into account account our
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situation and the priorities that are there I want to thank the members of
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parliament seated behind me and those who voted
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yes for identifying the priority areas of our
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nation because when I made the proposals to Parliament with my
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cabinet we had certain critical priorities for
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the nation number one is our
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agriculture we did make recommendation and part of the money we were going to
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raise from the finance bill was 10 billion Shillings that will
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go to fertilizer subsidy 18 billion Shillings that would
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go go to making sure that junior secondary
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school teachers 46 of them 46,000 of them would be
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confirmed on permanent and pensionable
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basis we are very clear in our minds that education being the greatest
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equalizer no child in Kenya should go to a school
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where there is no teacher or where there are no adequate teachers it is because of that
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reason that in this finance bill also we had committed to hire an
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extra 20,000
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teachers we also had [Music]
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envisioned because of the program of Last Mile connectivity to homes
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especially in rural areas we had committed 14.5 billion
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Shillings 50 million for every constituency for the last mile
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connectivity because we realize that there are many people
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who today cannot go to hospital because they cannot
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afford because they have no health insurance we had committed 6 billion
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shillings to operationalize our Universal Health Coverage plan that
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would make it possible for every citizen to have a healthy Insurance
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those who cannot afford to be paid for by the government of Kenya
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and to also operationalize the chronic illness fund that would make it
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possible for those who suffer from cancer diabetes
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hypertention to be able to go to hospital be treated and go home without
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being asked for any money we also had planned
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to put in money for our coffee Farmers to retire the heavy
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debts that are beving our coffee Farmers we also had allocated
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money for our sugarcan Farmers to make sure that our sugar
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farmers get out of the debts that they're in we had also committed to our milk
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farmers 2 billion shillings to make sure that
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every farmer is paid a minimum of 50 Shillings per
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liter to make sure that these Farmers very hardworking citizens of our nation
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get a fair return for their hard work and for feeding our
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nation and that is why I commend these members of parliament for
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agreeing with us that all the priority areas I have
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mentioned were the right priorities to be
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funded and by so doing they supported the proposal to incorporate also the
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views of the people these members of parliament came back to us after they went to listen to
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the people of Kenya and they came back and reduced the budget on their
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own to by 146 billion
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Shillings not withstanding all these concessions it has become evident that
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members of the public still insist on the need for
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us to make more concessions
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and because I run a
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government but I also lead people and the people have
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spoken I am grateful to all the members of the National Assembly who voted
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yesterday affirmatively for the finance bill 2024 as amended on the floor of the
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house to incorporate the views generated through public participation and following the passage
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of the bill the country witnessed widespread expression of dissatisfaction
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with the bill has passed regrettably resulting in the loss of life destruction of property and dis
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agression of constitutional institutions on my own
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behalf and on behalf of these members and many other Kenyans I end my
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condolences to the families of those who lost their loved ones in this very
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unfortunate manner consequently having
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reflected on the continuing conversation around the content of the finance bill
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2024 and listening keenly to the people of
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Kenya who have said loudly that they want nothing to do with
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this finance bill 2024 I
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concede and therefore I will not
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sign the 2024 finance bill and it shall
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subsequently be withdrawn and I have agreed with these
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members that that becomes our Collective position
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[Applause]
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accordingly there is Need for us as a nation to pick up from here and go into
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the future and I am there for proposing that
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because we have gotten rid of the finance bill 2024
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it is necessary for us to have a conversation as a nation going
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forward how do we manage the Affairs of the country
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together how do we manage our debt situation together how do we work on the budget
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with the deficits that now exist together and as I committed last
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Sunday I will be proposing an engagement with the young
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people of our nation our sons and
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daughters for us to listen to them as I said on Sunday listen to their
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views listen to their proposals their ideas their
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concerns and what they think we should do better as we go
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forward I am also recommending a multi sectoral
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bipartisan multi-stakeholder
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engagement from Civil Society religious
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organizations professional bodies for us as a
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nation to speak to the future of our
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country again together and this will be on matters
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that are contained in the bill and matters that the people of Kenya have
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conversed in the conversation that has been going
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on in this regard as well I am
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directing for immediate further austerity measures to reduce
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expenditure starting with the Office of the President the entire
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presidency and extending to the entire executive arm of
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government operational expenditure in the presidency be reduced to remove allocation ations for the confidential
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Fort reduced trouble Hospitality purchase of Motor
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Vehicles Renovations and other [Applause]
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expenditures this will cover the entire
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presidency and also the executive arm of government I also propose that equ
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Parliament the Judiciary and County governments working with the national
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treasury also undertake budget cuts and austerity to
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ensure that we do live within our means
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respecting the very loud message that is coming from the people of Kenya
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[Applause]
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and let me confirm that I have discussed with many
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uh stakeholders I will be meeting some of them uh shortly after this
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meeting on chatting a way forward that makes sure that we carry
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the whole nation in this very important Journey
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as we go into the future as a
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country let me also confirm that as we deal with austerity the loud message on dealing
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fir decisively and expeditiously with
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corruption is a matter that we have discussed and we have
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agreed that it will take the front Banner as we go into the
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future we will continue to do this and carry out this very important
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conversation and I want to remind us that we should proceed within the
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foundational principles upon which our nation is founded namely
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constitutionalism adherence to the rule of law and respect for constitutional
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institutions we must continue to operate within the parameters of the
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law I thank [Music]
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you I will uh take a few questions three questions to be specific thank you your
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Excellency and the first question we'll start with Elizabeth mutuku from tv47
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good evening my question is on young leaders from the Gen uh generation who
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were abducted yesterday and the the day before yesterday what happens to that
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second there were young people who were killed during the demonstrations what do
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you speak of that as the head of state thirdly how do we move forward on the
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budget cards especially now that you've said that uh we going to have oburity
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measures yes but how then do we secure
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development thank you very much please no no it's
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okay so I um I have
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said young people six to be exact six
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people yesterday lost their lives very Unfortunately they shouldn't have lost
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their lives and I have said it is a very unfortunate
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situation I wish that would not have
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happened and there is a framework that will make sure that those
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six Kenyans who died yesterday will be accounted for
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number two I did promise the country that there will be no
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extrajudicial killings going forward and ever since I came into
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office there is not one incident of extrajudicial
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killing what you said about abduction are statements that were attributed to some of our civil society
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groups but all the people they mentioned are have since been found in
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police custody and those that
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were already processed were already
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released on the matter of development that you have said minus the
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finance bill it means that some of the development
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program s amounting to 200 billion Shillings we will have to cut down to
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delay them they will have to wait some of them for next year we will try it
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again uh we will try next year to find some money some of them um we will have to uh
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cancel because that's the nature of things and it is because the people of
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Kenya have spoken loudly that they want a Lena budget for us as a
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[Applause] country question number two we'll take
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the next question from Busara K24
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measures
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thank you very much um about 214
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Kenyans were involved in various commishes and many of them went to
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hospital 95 of them were treated and released some of
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them um I think one is still in is CU you and others I think 14 ministers
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here are still in hospital but majority of them were tweeted and released
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yesterday as I have told you on those who
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um lost their lives there will be a mechanism of how they will be accounted
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for on the young people uh whom you have said how do we listen to them let me say
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the following number one I did make a very
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clear determined program to create opportunities for
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young people to work it was in our
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Manifesto it is in my plan as I talk to you three of the programs are going on
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the housing program today has
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16,000 young people working as Engineers as Architects as quantity
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surveyors plumbers meons Carpenters Artisans
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Transporters accountants we have 160,000
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young people working because I did take the decision that if we don't deal with
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millions of young people out of school out of college who have certificates and
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they don't have jobs they will soon become a very big challenge for us as a
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country as we are witnessing at the moment all the young people you
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see they're looking for opportunity they're looking for jobs and that is why our housing program
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once it is fully rolled out we will have a minimum of half a million young people
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working in our housing program number
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two I have been very clear on making sure that additional to our housing
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program is our digital infrastructure the digital Super Highway the digital hubs
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and the whole ecosystem of what we are doing in creating digital
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jobs I was in Ru with honorable K Kara is right
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there not not more than a month and a half ago launching a hub that will hire 4,5
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500 young people under
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CCI in this budget we had added 10 billion shillings
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to CDF for them to be able to construct ICT hubs in each ward in the Republic of
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Kenya that would give opportunities for 2 to 300 young people
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in every world to access internet to be trained to have a hub and
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to monetize their digital skills we will still find another way of
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implementing this plan even if we have to cut
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back on CDF if that is what is going to happen
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again because we believe that young people deserve
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opportunity as I talk to you we've just concluded three bilateral
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agreements one of them with Germany on export of
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Labor because we have negotiated with many countries who are interested in the high
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skills of Kenyan labor and we have an ecosystem we now
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have a plan on how we are going to make sure that the young people in Kenya get
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opportunities to work either in Kenya or outside
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Kenya in fact just this week this week last week I saw
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um on the on the headlines of one of the dailies there was a gentleman from my
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Village he was put on the headline and he said he he operated from
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where I used to operate selling chicken that's why they put him in the headline and his complaint
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was you see the president has not done well
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because in this Village many people are going to look for
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jobs outside Kenya that gentleman did not know that
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those people people in our village that have gone to Saudi Arabia
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or UAE I am the one who supported the program for them to go as part of the
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export of Labor so he thought that those people were going away because there
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were no jobs in Kenya but it is part of this plan I have kept on talking about because I think it
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was called Mis or somebody if you go and check the headline I think of last week
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Thursday or Friday he was there he didn't know the good young man
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that they I think we have almost 500 or 400 and something people in around that Village
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that have actually gotten jobs outside Kenya and they are changing that
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Village and that is actually an admission by that gentleman
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that our plan on export of Labor is working and number
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two that when we committed ourselves to making sure that we create opportunities
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for young people to work we meant it so we have a program on housing we
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have a program on digital jobs we have a program on export of Labor we have a program on the whole manufacturing
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sector let me give you another example I'm I'm talking this as a
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leader we deliberately last year said we cannot
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continue to import products that we can manufacture in Kenya one of them was
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clinker cement Furniture
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Steel what has happened the last one year very many in fact five to be
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specific companies have sought licenses in Kenya to do clinker to do cement and
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last year because of what we did we reduced the import of clinker by
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95% we saved foreign exchange we created jobs locally I was in West
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poot with my Minister for industrialization I'm sure the members of Westport they are here they were they
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were there with me in West poort opening a clinker Factory that now hires
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2,500 young Kenyans with another almost
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2,000 as drivers support staff
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big market now in in West poort expanding Manufacturing in Kenya
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is the right thing and it is the reason why some of
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our policy interventions on matters like imported
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stuff that are being manufactured in Kenya for example we have
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said substandard low quality imported sanitary parts from China and
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other places how can they come into Kenya when
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we have 10 companies in Kenya hiring Kenyan young people how can they come
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and compete here all the products that we are manufacturing locally we must protect our local Industries so that
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they create jobs locally so that they create opportunities locally in this
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finance bill you will also see that we have imposed
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Duty on um potatoes from Europe
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surely how can we continue importing potatoes from Europe and we have Farmers
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right here in kirinyaga we have Farmers right here
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inand in moo in Tim how can we justify how can anybody take
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offense that we have imposed Duty
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on imported potatoes we have put Duty on imported
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eggs on imported onions because we must
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protect our local farmers every country does that every
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country does that I was negotiating with the prime
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minister of India because they are imposing Duty on our
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avocados I was in Korea negotiating with the government of Korea because they are
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imposing Duty on our tea on our coffee and on our macademia including our uh
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avocados every country does that to protect their Market unless there's a mutual agreement
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so these are among the things we are doing to make sure that we grow our
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local manufacturing create local jobs create
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local wealth that is how we are going to move forward as a country we cannot
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continue to be a supermarket for other people's
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factories it is important that we also produce our own products our young
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people can produce products in Kenya which are of high quality which
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are of international standard and we can do that so I just wanted to clarify this
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point because it is addressing the young people of our country and I am looking
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forward to a conversation with my sons and daughters the young people of this nation to
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explain to them the opportunities that they have and I want to listen to them what
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additionally do they want me to do what can we do better and how can we move the
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country forward together thank you very
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much thank you Excellency that marks the end of the question session thank you very much your
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