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    "id": 1221078,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. This is a serious issue. A few weeks ago, I was in Eldoret Town, and this matter was active and in public domain. This Statement should go further because we are not talking about millions, hundreds or thousands of students, but a number of students. There should be an audit for every county government to establish any existence of such students, so that we know the circumstances under which they were taken out of the country. A record should be given to this House showing the accounts that were opened for monies to be deposited into them for purposes of paying for school fees. The report should also tell us who were the signatories of those accounts. Mr. Speaker, Sir, when I talk about public domain, I was hearing things like signatories of those accounts had bought properties, land and vehicles with money that was meant to pay school fees for these students. The Governors who might have been behind this noble idea did not know they were opening an avenue for swindling public funds. Since we shall be having that list, we would like the Statement to confirm if the Ministry of Foreign and Diaspora Affairs on humanitarian grounds will take the students with arrears back to complete their courses. Some of those students were taken to undergo courses in law, medicine and engineering. They were diverted from local universities where they would have been sponsored for free. This is a major scandal!"
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