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    "id": 1474685,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mukurweini, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kaguchia John",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I want to enquire from the Cabinet Secretary if he will amalgamate all the bursaries into one kitty. So, education can be free. Is he sure whether bursaries are sufficient to make education in Kenya free? Does this money sufficiently provide for free education? He should also explain how this will be done, without increasing the percentage of what we spend in education from 27 per cent to 30 per cent. As we speak, education in day schools is free and students only pay for their meals. Is the Cabinet Secretary going to provide free meals to students? Primary Schools and JSS are now asking parents to provide meals for their students by paying for the same. This has made JSS fees the same as day secondary schools. Is the Cabinet Secretary telling us that the Ministry will have sufficient money to cater for all these needs, if they amalgamate bursaries? I find it very suspect if they are planning to take money that is already devolved to the constituencies and bring it back to Nairobi; a place where we cannot reach the Cabinet Secretary. They want to remove it from the leaders on the ground and then we will be running up and down in Nairobi looking for the same bursaries again. As I conclude, we also have an issue of the band system. We feel it was used to categorise students unfairly and targeted those who were well deserving. Quite a number of students who ought to have received better funds are not receiving. We saw students from very poor backgrounds being placed in Band 5. That spells doom to their education. At some point there were rumours that the Principal Secretary has introduced a consultant who distorted the instrument used before by HELB to categorise students. This needs to be cleared because it has raised a lot of suspicion. Some people are saying that students from certain regions are being disfavoured by this system. This is bringing propaganda and misinformation alive. Therefore, it needs to be addressed. The issue of insecurity in schools, also needs to be addressed more proactively now than before. I hope the Ministry will work with the new Inspector-General, Mr Kanja. I want 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."
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