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    "id": 1280022,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1280022/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nyando, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jared Okello",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, if this is left unattended, I can assure you that less than 20 per cent of our university students are going to report to college. When there was capitation, there was a level of certainty in terms of payment of school fees. Now, that has now been left to the discretion of the Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) and other people within the Ministry of Education thereby leaving all these students not knowing whether they will qualify or not because again, there is no set criteria as to who qualifies to get either scholarship or the bursary from the Ministry. If we do not act as a House, whereas we have never thrown our hands in the air as surrender, we are afraid that we are going to lose many brains that ought to have been plugged into classrooms within the university precincts going to languish out there. Unlike during our time, we were a bit fortified on several respects. The current crop of students is quite delicate and vulnerable. I do not want to see a situation where we register several cases of suicide by students who cannot access university education. This House has what it takes to rewind and bring back the capitation so that what we are used to paying between Ksh16,000 and Ksh35,000 a year is affordable. The number of fundraisers that are being organised now by university students are mind boggling. I call upon your direction, Hon. Speaker, so that we revert back to capitation and our students can now have certainty of joining university. I thank you for the opportunity and a listening ear."
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