The chairperson of the Budget Committee in the National Assembly Ndindi Nyoro has sought to assure Kenyans that some vital programmes that had been factored in the budget will not be affected by budget cuts. https://shorturl.at/nh1U8
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00:00of doing budget work in Kenya.
00:04And we do it because you know that
00:07the Kenyans have taught us to work hard.
00:10They have taught us that we should work with the money we have.
00:16And so it will be necessary,
00:18the budget we have been through,
00:20to cover it with the money we have.
00:24Isn't that right?
00:26And that is what I want to encourage the Kenyans.
00:29Because we will cut our budget to 1.177 billion.
00:35There are things that we have already agreed,
00:38that even as we cut our budget,
00:41those issues must remain,
00:43because they are very important to the bosses of us,
00:47our bosses, who are the people of Kenya.
00:50First of all,
00:52we need the money that is there,
00:54for the milk production.
00:561.5 billion shillings.
00:58If the chairman of the budget
01:00cuts all the shillings,
01:02that money will not be cut.
01:04Because we want a new KCC,
01:06so that the price of milk
01:08does not go below
01:1050 shillings per litre,
01:12the money that goes to the shillings.
01:15The second example is fertilizer.
01:18The subsidy of 10 billion shillings
01:20will still be there.
01:22Because we want all the shillings,
01:24to continue to shill without stopping.
01:27The shillings of tea,
01:29the shillings of coffee,
01:31the shillings of food,
01:33like the shillings of wheat,
01:35to be fertilized with fertilizer.
01:37The other example that we have already accepted,
01:40our JSS teachers,
01:42they have been very self-sufficient,
01:44in their work.
01:46And all of them, about 46,000,
01:48they have been interns.
01:50This is something that we must raise with them.
01:53Because even if we cut our budget elsewhere,
01:56we want the rights of JSS interns,
01:58to be used,
02:00and to be given permanent and pensionable jobs,
02:03because they have been self-sufficient for a very long time.
02:06There are other things,
02:08like the waste that has been collected,
02:10and we are also looking at that.
02:12And there is another thing,
02:14when we are here in a technical situation,
02:16there is money in the budget,
02:18to be given to the trainers,
02:20of our technical and training institutes and colleges.
02:24This money, to be given to the trainers,
02:26must also remain,
02:28because it is not enough,
02:30and it is where Kenya wants to go.
02:32And for all of these,
02:34we will cut,
02:36we will try to start by
02:38looking at ourselves,
02:40to cut the money that is not enough,
02:42or close to us.
02:44The money that is not enough,
02:46to be used by Kenya,
02:48must remain in the budget,
02:50so that the meaning will go well.
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