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    "id": 583582,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I thank the Chairman of the Committee for bringing this report to the House. I would like to share a personal experience on this matter. I have young people from my county who received letters of admission to the KMTC through the KUCCPS and others who received letters through KMTC. The parents of these children were very excited. Everyone wants their children to undertake a course as noble as medical studies. The process of raising fees to take these children to school and mobilizing resources is lengthy and laborious. We, as Senators, and elected leaders, get involved and conduct harambees out of our own philanthropy to take some of these students to KMTC only for them to get there and to be told that because of legalese they cannot be admitted. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we have just closed a debate on education matters in this country. Right now, the entire nation is watching. If you will interpret the position of the Government and the entire leadership on education matters, it tells you that Kenyans are on their own. How can 2,305 young and bright people be admitted only to be told that, there is a legal issue? It is just a few months ago that recruits to the police were treated to a similar incident. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the oath of affirmation for Cabinet Secretaries and Principal Secretaries says very clearly and I quote:- “I will be a true and faithful counselor to the President for the good management of the public affairs of the Republic of Kenya” Does this mean that someone is not advising the President and the entire Cabinet on this matter? Who is this misadvising the President? What action is being taken against people who are misadvising the President? What action is being taken to ensure that we have got a full cabinet instead of a situation where the Cabinet Secretary who is supposed to be responsible for health is involved in other things such that he cannot have the full focus that the people of this nation deserve? What has happened to those Cabinet Secretaries who had been asked to step aside, have been investigated and are still sitting in the trash can yet this country is suffering? The Cabinet Secretaries who are there do not have the capacity to faithfully and properly advise the President. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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