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    "content": "nation. In my constituency, so many students drop out of university. Most of them have been funded up to the second year, but HELB stops funding them from the third year. As Members of Parliament, there is very little that we can do. This is because the little money that we get from the CDF bursary kitty, or the Ministry of Education kitty, is just enough to assist secondary school education and other tertiary institutions like the polytechnics and the Medical Training Colleges ( MTCs). It is very important that the Ministry officials sit down with Members of Parliament in a Speaker’s Kamkunji, so that we can urgently discuss HELB issues. We want HELB to be as transparent as the Roads Board of Kenya is. When they give us money, they show us the road to be constructed and the amount of money allocated for that particular task. We want the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology to tell us, for example, that there are 10 or 20 students from Teso who have benefitted from HELB. They should tell us the amount of money the students have been loaned. We do not want to play hide and seek games, whenever they come to confront us for assistance. We want to know exactly how much they get and how much they are supposed to be getting. I appeal to the Minister to take up this matter urgently, so that during our campaigns, we do not find university students on the other side opposing us, because we never supported them to acquire enough funds for their education. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Higher Education, Science and Technology has said that they have already identified eight centres to be technical training institutions. I hope that was done fairly, because he avoided mentioning them. When somebody avoids mentioning something, then there must be something that he is hiding. We expected him to be very transparent and to tell the public what is happening now, that Parliamentary proceedings are covered live. Everybody would like to know which areas are these. If it was a professional task force that went out, he should be proud to tell us, for example, that in Western Province, it will be the technical institute in Bungoma---"
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