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    "id": 1282069,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nyando, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jared Okello",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Deputy Speaker. We can all recall that I made a Request for a Statement yesterday concerning the issue the Leader of the Majority Party has ably explained. I also confirm that the Cabinet Secretary for Education was here this morning. Members of Parliament attended a session under the stewardship of the overarching Departmental Committee on Education and Research. A raft of issues were addressed. The most fundamental one, which informed the genesis of my Request for Statement yesterday, was how categorization will be done from 7th September, yet students are expected to be in college from Monday. By Monday, funds for university education will not have reached the respective universities. The Cabinet Secretary for Education made an undertaking that all first-year students will have to report with or without money as they await cash to be sent to their universities. Therefore, I am clarifying to Members here who were not present in the Committee meeting that no one should be held back at home. The Ministry of Education plans to have all first-year students, whether medical students attracting Ksh450,000 a year or art students attracting Ksh158,000 a year, to report to college and start their studies awaiting categorization and money to be wired to their universities. At least that takes the burden off the shoulders of Members of Parliament who have consistently been confronted by these huge circulars from the Ministry of Education. Our children will now go to college, with or without monies. Their studies can take shape. That was important for Members to know because all these requests are channeled to our offices as Members of Parliament. I thank you."
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