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    "id": 1355181,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1355181/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": ". Those who purport to have gone to the streets on account of the cost of living used sufuria and unga as an excuse when it was Ksh210, today want to threaten us that they can go back to the streets on account of unga which costs Ksh157 for the most expensive brands. There are brands that cost Ksh140. We must drop this pretence and speak to the issues. Others are attempting to excite and incite university students on account of the new funding model. It is unfortunate that even very senior leaders in this country speak to issues that they have absolutely no information on. They have not sought to understand the housing agenda and the new funding model of our universities. Today, Ksh10.3 billion will go to the new universities funding model at Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) and yet, the political leaders are attempting to incite our university students. Shame on them! The Budget and Appropriations Committee and National Treasury have Ksh10.3 billion to go to the HELB. Shame on them! An amount of Ksh3.6 billion will be taken to university scholarships under the new funding model. Our school capitation for JSS will get another Ksh6.5 billion. The Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) will ensure that the examinations of our students will be marked and results delivered on time. They will get Ksh2.8 billion. Our Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institutions will get Ksh4.6 billion in the new funding model. On account of the Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service (KUCCPS) and the new funding model of universities and colleges, close to Ksh20 billion will be allocated to fund our university and college students. That is what a responsible and responsive Government does for its people. It ensures that parents who have students in TVETs, JSS and universities do not incur the burden of paying very high fees. We will appropriate adequate resources to HELB to ensure that they fund and give scholarships to children from the most vulnerable backgrounds. I know that children of many of these leaders, even very senior ones, attended public universities and benefited from the old funding model that never cared to know whether you are a son of a Member of Parliament, Governor, President, former Prime Minister, former Vice- President or sitting Deputy President. They funded you at the same level as a son of a hustler. The new funding model focuses on the downtrodden who are the most vulnerable children. Members of Parliament, former Prime Minister and former Vice-Presidents can afford to pay university fees for their children. They do it but, the sons and daughters of hustlers will get a 100 per cent scholarship and funding from HELB. This is what this Supplementary Budget is doing. We are talking about El Niño rains. They have come with some unmitigated things or emergencies that were not a focus by the time we were making the Budget at the beginning of the year. We were unable to provide adequate resources to deal with post-harvest losses. During the State of the Nation Address, the President announced that 100 mobile maize dryers and milk coolers would be procured. These resources will see Ksh2.4 billion going towards crops post-harvest to ensure that the extra 18 million bags harvested by patriotic farmers across the country will not go to waste on account of the heavy rains. Farmers will pay only Ksh70 down from Ksh350 to dry their maize. This will ensure that there will be unga in some of the sufurias that some of my colleagues here were putting on their heads and pretending they were leading a sufuria revolution which did not exist. 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."
}