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    "id": 1060122,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Molo, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kuria Kimani",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Francis Kuria Kimani",
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    "content": "Let me speak to the disbursement of these funds. Once we approve, as a House, what we have appropriated to the Ministries, it is at the discretion of the National Treasury to know which funds should be distributed when. Last week, we almost had a standstill on the Supplementary Estimates because funds that were supposed to go to the NG-CDF had not been disbursed, whereas some Ministries had received 100 per cent of their requests. Why is it that money which should go directly to Wanjiku is not disbursed on time? Let me give another example. Last week, we heard university students saying that they would go on strike because funds that were meant for the Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) had not been disbursed. I am a product of HELB. I come from a village that had nothing. I went to Kenyatta University. Were it not for the HELB loan that I received, I would probably not be debating this issue on the Floor of this House. The National Treasury knows that comrades are suffering. This is a generation we expect to build this country’s economy in the future. The National Treasury knows that we do not even have the NG-CDF money and, therefore, we cannot disburse bursaries to them. Yet, they fail to disburse the HELB money to them. This is a decision the National Treasury needs to make. I wish the people who sit at the helm of those institutions could understand the plight of the average Kenyan and put the money The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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