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    "speaker_name": "Samburu West, KANU",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Naisula Lesuuda",
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    "content": "because it enabled us to comb through these very important issues. One of my first questions was about the 14,000 students who have not reported so that we can understand whether it is still related to this new funding model. As he prepares to answer that question, we might need a detailed report later because sometimes you might find that the students also moved from one institution to the other and all that. I think we can follow up later to know exactly why these 14,000 students did not report to school. Secondly, Hon. Speaker, we will need to know, he might not have the answer right now, how many students have appealed so that we know whether the system is placing the students correctly. If we have too many appeals, it means it is not placing them in the correct bands. So, it would be important to know how many students have appealed. It is good that you now have the re-categorisation in case something happens to the students. Lastly, I want to ask whether private universities are benefiting from this new higher education funding model and the whole issue of capitation. I sit in the Public Investments Committee (PIC) on Governance and Education, and one of the issues that arises from all our higher learning institutions is the issue of capitation. We budget it here and we pass it here, but the Ex-chequer is not released to these institutions. From what you have reported here, it seems the Government will carry the burden of paying most of the school fees for the children, meaning the burden of releasing the Ex-chequer and capitation again has come back to you, who does not release the Ex-chequer to these higher education institutions. You have seen that the lecturers now want to strike. You have seen the infrastructure in our institutions. How will you ensure, as the Cabinet Secretary, that these monies for students are released to institutions on time so that we do not cripple our institutions and that students do not drop out of school? Lastly, Hon. Speaker, although it was not my question, I just want to put it to the Cabinet Secretary that I think on these matters of the fires, we are a reactionary country. I am aware that in my county and constituency, the whole last two weeks, there has been what you are saying ― the running around by the education board, trying to assess the schools. Why can we not make this be a continuous process so that it is not just that when a tragedy like the one happens, you start running around? That is what those education officers should be doing in a continuous process."
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