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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Okenyuri",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for this opportunity. I want to support the Statement by Sen. Beth Syengo on disbursement of funds to technical vocational training institutions. The TVET education is very critical in this country. We are basing on equipping young people with technical skills, so they are able to do whatever initiatives they do on their own. Allow me also to indicate that on that same line of education, we can keep following up on why money is delaying going to these institutions, but at the same time, you also need to demand for an audit on how some of that money is being used. For example, regarding the Elimu Scholarship that is being given by the Ministry of Education, taxpayers need value for their money. I saw an audit by the Auditor General, Nancy Gathungu, indicating so many failures out of the students who are actually beneficiaries of this scholarship. I do not want to say that students who are performing badly do not qualify for those scholarships, but at least taxpayers who are contributing largely to this need to see the value by these scholarships having an academic performance report attached to them, so that other needy students who are doing very well do not miss out. In as much as we want money to go down there, we need an audit, a report of how beneficiaries are performing and who are these beneficiaries. Look at even the international scholarships. We want to know which students have benefited, so that they come back to this country and contribute to growing this nation. I thank you."
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