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Kenya President William Uto has returned the
twenty twenty four Finance built to the National

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Assembly for reconsideration. This was revealed
in a letter signed by President Ruteau and

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met Amabu on the President’s social media
hanums on Wednesday evening day after several protesters

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were shot then when the run into
the Parliament building in attempt to stop the

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Lomickers from passing the proposed stats At
finance bill. President Ruteau, in the

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nationwide broadcast has said that the intended
tax law MP to generate billions of revenue

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to finance and addressed their biden on
the country and create jobs opportunities for the

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youths. According to Rutau, the
finance bill would have enabled him established icit

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centers in all the worlds in Kenya. The letter rates in court. Whereas

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a bill titled an Art of Parliament
to amend the law relating to various taxes

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and duties and for connected purposes,
the short title of which his day Finance

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Bill twenty twenty four was passed by
the National Assembly on the twenty fifth of

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June twenty twenty four, and whereas
the Finance Bill twenty twenty four was presented

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to me for presidential assent in accordance
with the provisions of the Constitution on the

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twenty sixth h day of the month
of June and the year twenty twenty four.

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Taking into cosideration of the widespread expression
of the satisfaction by members of the

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public on the contents of the Finance
Bill twenty twenty four, none therefore,

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in exercise of the powers conferred to
be by Article one hundred and fifteen one,

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guest being of the Constitution, and
having reservations on the contents of the

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Bill in its entirety, I declined
to assent to the Finance Bill twenty twenty

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four and refine the bill for reconsideration
by the National Assembly with the recommendation for

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the religion of all the closest there
off. President Rotol, a meeting with

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religious leaders at the Statehouse in Naomi
on Winnes’s Day, said, we commend

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our youth for exercising their constitutional rights
to be involved in the affairs of their

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country. Unfortunately, criminals often hijat
such initiatives, engaging empolaments and destruction of

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property. This should not silence their
voices. Moving forward, we will engage

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the youth and other stakeholders as part
of a multisexual effort to find solutions to

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issues of national concern at Statehouse,
Kenya, Nairobi. I meant religious leaders

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drawn from the National Council of Churches
of Kenya, Kenya Coalition of Church and

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Ministries and the Evangelical Alliance of Kenya. We have the reporters that Kenyan Medical

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Association has confound that more people are
still being treated with serious conscious injuries,

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with thirteen of them already pronounced dead. Simon Kigondo, president of the Kenyan

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Medical Association, said that the figure
of thirteen that’s was not the final number.

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Recent video on wedness they showed moments
some of the protesters were being helped

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and some still running with one of
their hands on the bootoks, civily trying

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to ease themselves of the paints of
the bullets. The video also showed that

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some of the protesters were shot on
their bootocks, with sounds of bonfire held

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repeatedly in quick succession in a warlike
situation. Crowd of protesters run into the

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Parliamentary building in Naomi, Kenya on
Tuesday, trying to stop the members of

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Parliament from passing the controversial finance built
twenty twenty four into law. The Loneakers

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went ahead and passed the bill on
Tuesday and presented it to President William Blunt

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to sign it into law. The
bill is yet to be signed into law

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as agrieved Kenyans continued with the protest
against the finance built twenty twenty four m

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to increase taxes in the country.
The Parliament passed the bill and scarce the

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umber of the protesters too on the
ground tennel after one hundred and ninety five

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members of the parliament voted in favor
for the bill and one hundred and six

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four against the bill, with three
of the total books called. According to

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aywitnesses, for weeks a lot of
Kenyon’s took to the streets and called for

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the stoppage of the bill with hashtag
rejects Finance Bill protests in Niobi and other

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towns all over the country. A
section of the Parliament building was also set

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ablaze on Tuesday by the protesters,
who appeared to be mostly young people in

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their youthful age, according to videos
posted online by eyewitnesses. Kenyan activist Forma

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Obama, the half sister of former
US President Barack Obama, was among those

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tails guds. During the protests outside
the parliament building in Niobi, police opened

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fire on demonstrators trying to storm the
legislature, resulting in at least thirteen dets,

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dozens of injuries and sections of the
parliament building being set ablaze as long

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as passed attacks raising bill. Former
Obama, interviewed by C and N,

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expressed as support for the young Kenyans
demonstrating for their rights. Amidst the chaos,

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angry crowd broke two police lives to
storm parliaments in the capital, Naiobi,

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before setting parts of it ablaze,
according to Router’s International News Agency.

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In an address on Tuesday evening,
President William Luto said all meats would be

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deployed to twold any attempts by dangerous
criminals to undermine the security and stability of

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our country, after he had deployed
the military to quill the protests. There

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have also been on verified social media
reports of dozens of people being shot led

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by security officers overnight, as well
as reports of deaths in other areas around

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the country where there were protests,
According to local reports from Nairobi. On

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confound reports indicated that the ceremonial mess
symbolizing the authority of the legislature was storlen.

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After the protesters broke into the Parliament
building, certain parts of its ablaze

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before firefighters arrived and discalated the inferno. Former President Bommu Kenyata urged dialog saying

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Kenya’s leaders should know that power and
authority is donated to them by the people.

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Parts of Luton’s report rates in court
draws. Police opened fire on demonstrators

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trying to storm Kenya’s legislature on Tuesday, with protesters killed, dozens wounded,

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and sections of the parliament building sets
ablaze Aslamika’s insult passed legislation to raise taxes.

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In chaotic scenes, protesters overwhelmed police
and chanst them away in an attempt

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to storm the parliament compound, which
Citizen tially reported. Protesters had managed to

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enter the Senate chamber early in the
day. Police opened fire after tail gus

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and water cannot fill to disperse the
crowds. A Rout’s journalist counters the bodies

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of at least five protesters outside parliament. A paramedic, Vivian Archester, said

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at least ten had been shot dead. Another Paramedic Richard A. Mumo said

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more than fifty people had been wounded
by godfire. He was little too injured.

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Protesters into an ambulance outside Parliament.
Police eventually managed to drive the protesters

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from the building amid clouds of tail
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The Lonakas were evacuated through on the
ground tunnels. Local Millier reported internet’s services

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across the country also experienced severe destructions
during the police craft down. Internet monitor

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net blocks said Kenya’s leading network operator, Safari Coms said too on the SIKA

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volts way out of action, causing
the otages. Protests and clashes also took

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place in several other cities and towns
across the country, with many calling for

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President William Mutton to quit office as
well as poison their opposition to the tax

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rises. Parliament approved the finance bill
not get through to a third winning by

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Lomikas. The next step is for
the legislation to be sent to the President

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for signing. He can send it
back to Parliament if he has any objections.

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The finance bill aims to raise an
additional two point seven billion dollars in

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taxes us part of an effort to
lighten the heavy bet load, with interest

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crements alone consuming thirty seven percent of
annual revenue. Opposition leader renner Or Inca

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called for the finance bill to be
immediately and unconditionally withdrawn to bank away for

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dialogue. I am the stopped at
the murder’s arrests, the tensions and sovereigance

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being ppetrated by police on boys and
girls who are only seeking to be held

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over tucsession policies that are still in
both their present and future, he said

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in the statement. Chinston’s protests began
in the festival like atmosphere Boart as crowds

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world police fied tairgass in Miaoli central
business district and the poor neighborhood of Qubera.

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Protesters dopped for cover and three stones
at police lines. People clumbered over

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police vencoms stalled in the downtown streets. Police also fired tair gus in elderit

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Luto’s hometown in western Kenya, where
crowds of protesters filled the streets and many

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businesses were closed for fear of violence. Clashes also broke out in the coastal

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city of Mombasa, and demonstrations tookla
in Qusumo on Lake Victoria and Garrisa in

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eastern Kenya, where police drooped the
landmod to Somalia’s sports of his smile.

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In Nairobi, people chanted Ruto must
go and crowds sung in Swahili. All

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can be possible without Rutu music planned
from loved speakers and protesters worth Kenyan flams

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and blue misules in a few hours
before the violence escalated. Ruta’s US reports

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ends in court. Meanwhile, the
United Nations Secretary General Antonio Butterris has urged

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the Kenyan authorities to exercise restraint while
dealing with citizens protesting over the finance bill.

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He also called on Kenyans to demonstrate
peacefully to avoid confrontations with police officers.

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I am deeply sided by the reports
of deaths and injuries, included of

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journalists and medical personnel, connected to
protests and street demonstrations in Kenya. I

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urged the Kenyan authorities to exercise restraints
and called for all demonstrations to take place

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peacefully. Stateted Butteries. His statements
emaged after several people were killed when protesters

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storm parliament buildings on Tuesday. Foreign
Ministry of Guganda government issued a statement from

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Campana in Guganda on the twenty sixth
of June twenty twenty four, status are

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the newly renovated Uganda House was among
the properties destroyed by the angry protesters on

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Tuesday. In the statelent signed by
the Permanent Secretary of the Uganda Foreign Ministry

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Bajaria Vincent Waizwa, the government of
ugandatan the Kenya Fire Department for their quick

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response in putting of the fire.
Bajaria also started in the press statement that

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none of the diplomatic for the consular
staff were in the building as at the

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time the protestants said the Uganda House
ablaze and in that the diplomatic relationship between

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the republics of Kenya and Uganda remained
solid. In the work of protests in

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Kenya on June twenty fifth, twenty
twenty four, the protesters abandoned the principle

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of peaceful demonstrations and took the part
of the struction of properties wherein the newly

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reformished Uganda House. A commercial building
located on Kenyata Avenue in the Nioli Central

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Business District was vandalized an set ablaze. The Uganda Foreign Ministry said when I

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assumed office twenty months ago. Our
country was facing tremendous economic challenges. Escalating

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costs of essential household commodities, high
fuel prices, rabid depreciation of the Kenya

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shilling and spiraling public debt were threatening
to ground our economy. My administration has

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worked hard and consistently so that today
the prices of essential commodities like hunga have

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dropped from two hundred and forty shillings
for a two kilogram packet to Kenya shillings

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one hundred, majorly attributed to our
fertilizer subsidy program, the resilience of our

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farmers and good reigns that were given
to us by God during the period.

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We reduced the price of fertilizer also
from seven thy five hundred to two thousand,

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five hundred. Petrol prices have come
down to from a high of two

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hundred and seventeen to now one hundred
and eighty seven a liter. The shilling

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are strengthened against the dollar, from
a high of one hundred and sixty five

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to now one hundred and twenty seven
one hundred and twenty eight. We have

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made significant progress in pulling the nation
back from the brink of debt distress.

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Our debt situation is better managed,
and our budget now has space for investment

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and in programs aimed at easing the
hardship on vulnerable people and creating opportunities for

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our young people. Our GDP grew
by five point six percent last year,

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ranking Kenya among the twenty seven fastest
growing economies in the world. Our inflation

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figures have fallen from a high of
nine and eight in May last year to

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five percent in April this year.
It is instructive for the nation to know

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that for every one hundred shillings we
collect as taxes, we spend sixty one

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shillings in debt service. We have
paid Kenya’s eurobone debt that was borrowed in

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twenty fourteen. Of two billion dollars
that has been hanging around our neck,

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we paid the last installment of five
hundred million dollars last week. Today,

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Kenya’s debt burden is much less,
more sustainable, and we are on course

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to redeem our country from the discomfort
of debt and assert our sovereignty. Early

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this year, Treasury had proposed a
budget of four point one eight trillion.

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I did direct that it be reduced
by two hundred billion to come down to

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three hundred three point nine nine trillion. The Finance Bill twenty twenty four generated

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to actualize this budget underwent public participation
which resulted to concessions by which we agreed

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to drop proposals on viet on bread, most of vehicle circulation tax VT,

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on locally manufactured diapers and sienitory parts, as well as excise duty on money

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transfer services, among others. The
additional tax measures we had proposed in this

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year’s Finance Bill were to raise money
in the tune of three hundred and forty

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six billion. When the concessions were
made subsequent to public participation that was undertaken

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by Parliament, that came down to
two hundred billion. I had made this

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proposal taking into account our situation and
the priorities that are there. I want

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to thank the members of Parliament seated
behind me and those who voted yes for

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identifying the priority areas of our nation, because when I made the proposals to

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Parliament with my Cabinet, we had
certain critical priorities for the nation. Number

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one is our agriculture. We did
make recommendation and part of the money we

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were going to raise from the Finance
bill was ten billion shillings that will go

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to fertilizer subsidy, eighteen billion shillings
that would go to making sure that junior

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secondary school teachers forty six of them
forty six thousand of them would be confirmed

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on permanent and pension old basis.
We are very clear in our minds that

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education being the greatest equalizer, no
child in Kenya should go to a school

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where there is no teacher or were
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because of that reason that in this
Finance Bill also we had committed to hire

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an extra twenty thousand teachers. We
also had envisioned because of the program of

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last mile connectivity to homes, especially
in rural areas, we had committed fourteen

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point five billion shillings fifty million for
every constituency for the last mile connectivity.

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Because we realize that there are many
people who today cannot go to hospital because

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they cannot afford because they have no
health insurance, we had committed six billion

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shillings to operationalize our universal health coverage
plan that would make it possible for every

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citizen to have a health insurance.
Those who cannot afford to be paid for

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by the Government of Kenya, and
to also operationalize the Chronic Illness Fund that

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would make it possible for those who
suffer from cancer, diabetes, hypertension to

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be able to go to hospital,
be treated and go home without being asked

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for any money. We also had
planned to put in money for our coffee

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farmers to retire the heavy debts that
are bedeviling our coffee farmers. We also

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had allocated money for our sugar can
farmers to make sure that our sugar can

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farmers get out of the debts that
they’re in. We had also committed to

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our milk farmers two billion shillings to
make sure that every farmer is paid a

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minimum of fifty shillings per litter to
make sure that these farmers, very hard

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working citizens of our nation, get
a fair return for their hard work and

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for feeding our nation. And that
is why I commend these members of Parliament

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for agreeing with us that all the
priority areas I have mentioned were the right

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priorities to be funded, and by
so doing they supported the proposal to incorporate

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also the views of the people.
These members of Parliament came back to us

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after they went to listen to the
people of Kenya, and they came back

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and reduced the budget on their own
to buy one hundred and forty six billion

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shillings. Notwithstanding all these concessions,
it has become evident that members of the

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public still insist on the need for
us to make more concessions. And because

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I run a 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 twenty
twenty four as amended on the floor of

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the 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 with the bill as

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passed, regrettably resulting in the loss
of life, destruction of property and disagreation

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of constitutional institutions. On my own
behalf and on behalf of these members and

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many other canyons, I send my
condolences to the families of those who lost

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their loved ones in this very unfortunate
manner. Consequently, having reflected on the

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continuing conversation around the content of the
Finance Bill twenty twenty four and listening keenly

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to the people of Kenya who have
said loudly that they want nothing to do

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with this Finance Bill twenty twenty four. I concede, and therefore I will

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not sign the twenty twenty four Finance
Bill and it shall subsequently be with a

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drone. And I have agreed with
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Accordingly, there is need for us
as a nation to pick up from

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here and go into the future.
And I am therefore proposing that because we

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have gotten rid of the Finance Build
twenty twenty four, it is necessary for

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us to have a conversation as a
nation going forward, how do we manage

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the affairs of the country together,
How do we manage our debt situation together?

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How do we work on the budget
with the deputies that now exist together?

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And as I committed last sun,
I will be proposing an engagement with

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the young people of our nation,
our sons and daughters, for us to

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listen to them, as I said
on Sunday, listen to their views,

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listen to their proposals, their ideas, their concerns and what they think we

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should do better as we go forward. I am also recommending a multisectoral,

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bipartisan, multi stakeholder engagement from civil
society, religious organizations, professional bodies for

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us as a nation to speak to
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And this will be on matters that
are contained in the bill and matters that

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the people of Kenya have canvassed in
the conversation that has been going on in

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this regard as well, I am
directing for immediate father austility measures to reduce

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expenditure, starting with the Office of
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to the entire executive arm of government. Operational expenditure in the presidency be reduced

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to remove all locations for the convenenial
fought, reduce travel, hospitality, patches

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of motor vehicles, renovations and other
expenditures. This will cover the entire presidency

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and also the executive arm of government. I also propose that equally Parliament,

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the judiciary and county governments working with
the National Treasury also undertake budget cuts and

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austerity to ensure that we do leave
within our means. Respecting the very loud

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message that is coming from the people
of Kenyon, let me confirm that I

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have discussed with many stakeholders. I
will be meeting some of them shortly after

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this meeting on chatting away forward.
That makes sure that we carry the whole

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nation in this very important journey as
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Let me also confirm that as we
deal with austerity, the loud message

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on dealing family decisively and expeditiously with
corruption is a matter that we have discussed

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and we have agreed that it will
take the front banner as we go into

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the 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 foundational

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principles upon which our nation is founded, namely constitutionalism, a terence to the

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lull of law and respect for constitutional
institutions. We must continue to operate within

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the parameters of the law. I
thank you. I will take a few

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questions, three questions to be specific. Thank you, your excellency. And

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the first question will start with Elizabeth
Mutuku from TV forty seven. Good evening

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is so young leaders from the gency
generation who are adapted yesterday and the day

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before yesterday, what happens to that
second there were young people who were killed

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during the demonstrations. What do you
speak of that as the head of state?

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Badly? How do we move forward
on the budget cards, especially now

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that you’ve said that we’re going to
have ustimations. Yes, but how then

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do we secure development? Thank you
very much, mist No, No,

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it’s okay, So I am.
I have said young people six to be

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exact, six 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 situation. I

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wish that would not have happened,
and there is a framework that will make

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sure that those six can ensol the
idea yesterday will be accounted for. Number

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two, I did promise the country
that there will be no extra judicial killings

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going forward, and ever since I
came into office, there is not one

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incident of extra judicial killing. What
you said about abduction are statements that were

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attributed to some of our civil society
groups, but all the they mentioned are

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have since been found in police custody
and those that are already processed were already

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released. On the matter of development
that you have said, minus the finance

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bill, it means that some of
the development programs amounting to two hundred billion

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shillings. We will have to cut
down to delay them. They will have

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to wait some of them for next
year. We will try it again.

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We will try next year to find
some money. Some of them we will

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have to cancel because that’s the natural
of things. And it is because the

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people of Kenya have spoken loudly that
they want Alena badget for us. As

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I can question number two, we’ll
take the next question from Busarah k twenty

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four. Now, So Langa kwanza
ni new as Kumba matmaini ya vidana gen

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z naba Kenya ka bong yung works
a mahata maple tir but for Kamara is

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not again Kamba to viana kama Musi
move him Marcella and linger tire. If

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I’m if it’s a link in,
yeah, gotta come work to missus serricalnam

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and I can miss my combat it
measures Yeah, a transparency, that’s what

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the show you A kama fariki was
familiar collumb No, yes, Ericai,

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it is my me and my lippo. Yeah, while hospital in this’s just

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on a pokemont Babuka I stans thank
you very much. About two hundred and

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fourteen Kenyans were involved in various commissions
and many of them went to hospital.

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Ninety five of them were treated and
released. Some of them I think one

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is still in ICU and others I
think fourteen minister is here are still in

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hospital. But majority of them were
treated and released yesterday. As I have

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told you, on those who lost
their lives, there will be a mechanism

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of how they will be accounted for. On the young people whom you have

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said, how do we listen to
them, let me say the following number

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one. I did make a very
clear, determined program to create opportunities for

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young people to work. It was
in our manifesto, it is in my

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plan as I talk to you.
Three of the programs are going on.

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The housing program today has one hundred
and sixty thousand young people working as engineers,

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as architects, as contity s afairs, plumbers, masons, carpenters,

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artisans, transporters, accountants. We
have one hundred and sixty thousand young people

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working because I did take the decision
that if we don’t deal with millions of

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young people out of school, out
of college, who have certificates and they

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don’t have jobs, they will soon
become a very big challenge for us as

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a country as we are witnessing at
the moment all the young people you see,

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they’re looking for opportunity, they’re looking
for jobs, and that is why

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our housing program, once it is
fully rolled out, we will have a

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minimum of half a million young people
working in our housing program. Number two,

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I have been very clear on making
sure that additional to our housing program

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is our digital infrastructure, the digital
super Highway, the digital hubs and the

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whole ecosystem of what we are doing
in creating digital jobs. I was in

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real with underbooking Kinara right there,
not more than a man than a half

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ago, launching a hub that will
hire four thousand, five hundred young people

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under CiCi. In this budget,
we had added ten billion shillings to CDF

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for them to be able to construct
icity hubs in each ward in the Republic

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of ken That would give opportunities for
two to three hundred young people in every

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world to access Internet, to be
trained, to have a hub and to

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monetize their digital skills. We will
still find another way of implementing this plan

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even if we have to cut back
on CDF. If that is what is

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going to happen again, because we
believe that young people deserve opportunity. As

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I talk to you, we’ve just
concluded three pilateral agreements, one of them

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with Germany on export of labor.
Because we have negotiated with many countries who

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are interested in the high skills of
Kenyan labor and we have an ecosystem.

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We now have a plan on how
we are going to make sure that the

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young people in Kenya get opportunities to
work either in Kenya or outside Kenya.

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In fact, just this week this
week last week, I saw on the

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headlines of one of the dailies there
was a gentleman from my village. He

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was put on the headline and he
said, you operated from where I used

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to operate selling chicken. That’s why
they put him in the headline. And

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his complaint was, you see,
the president has not done well because in

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this village many people are going to
look for jobs outside Kenya. That gentleman

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did not know that those people in
our village that have gone to Saudi Arabia

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or Uee. I am the one
who supported the program for them to go

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as part of the export of labor. So he thought that those people were

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going away because there were no jobs
in Kenya. But it is part of

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this plan I have kept on talking
about because I think it was called me

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Soy or somebody. If you go
and check the headline, I think of

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last week, Thursday or Friday,
he was there. He didn’t know the

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good young man that they. I
think we have almost five hundred or four

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hundred and something people in around that
village that have actually gotten jobs outside Kenya

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and they are changing that village.
And that is actually an admission by that

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gentleman that our plan on export of
life is working. And number two that

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when we committed ourselves to making sure
that we create opportunities for young people to

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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.

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We have a program on the whole
manufacturing sector. Let me give you

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another example. Now I’m talking this
as a leader, We deliberately last year

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said we cannot continue to import products
that we can manufacture in king One of

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them was Clinker cement furniture. Still, what has happened the last one year,

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very many, in fact five to
be specific, companies have sought licenses

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in Kenya to do clinker to do
cement and last year because of what we

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did, we reduced the import of
clinker by ninety five percent, We saved

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foreign exchange, We created jobs locally. I was in Westpocote with my Minister

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for Industrialization. I’m sure the members
of Westpocotte there here. They were there

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with me in Westpocotte opening a clinker
factory that now hires two thousand, five

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hundred young cannons, with another almost
two thousand as drivers support staff. A

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big market now in in Westpocote.
Expanding manufacturing in Kenya is the right thing

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and it is the reason why some
of our policy interventions on matters like important

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staff that are being manufactured in Kenya. For example, we have said substandard,

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low quality imported sanitary parts from China
and other places. How can they

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come into Kenya When we have ten
companies in Kenya hiring Kenyan young people,

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how can they come and compete here? All the products that we are manufacturing

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locally. We must protect our local
industries so that they create jobs locally,

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so that they create opportunities locally.
In this finance bill, you will also

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see that we have imposed duty on
potatoes from Europe surely, how can we

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continue importing potatoes from Europe and we
have farmers right here in Krinaga. We

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have farmers right here in Nyandarua,
in Morrow, in Timau. How can

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we justify how can anybody take offense
that we have imposed duty on imported potatoes.

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We have put duty on imported eggs, on imported onions, because we

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must protect our local farmers. Every
country does that. Every country does that.

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I was negative with the Prime Minister
of India because they are imposing duty

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on our avocados. I was in
Korea negotiating with the government of Korea because

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they are imposing duty on our tea, on our coffee, and on our

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academia, including our avocados. Every
country does start to protect their market unless

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there is a mutual agreement. So
these are amongst the things we are doing

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to make sure that we grow our
local manufacturing, create local jobs, create

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local wealth. That is how we’re
going to move forward as a country.

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We cannot continue to be a supermarket
for other people’s factorists. It is important

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that we also produce our own products. Our young people can produce products in

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Kenya which are of high quality,
which are of international standard, and we

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can do that. So I just
wanted to clarify this point because it is

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addressing the young people of our country. And I am looking forward to a

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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

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them. What additionally do they want
me to do, What can we do

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better and how can we move the
country forward together? Thank you very much,

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Thank you, excellency. That marks
the end of the question session.

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Thank you very much, Your excellency. Lady in a mortgage is