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    "id": 1474742,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Gatanga, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Wakili Edward Muriu",
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    "content": " I appreciate that, but it is important for me to disclose. I am saying this because the current CS, myself and other Members of Parliament here went to university and there were no issues about funding of our schooling. I believe in the principle of: ‘‘If it is not broken, do not repair it.’’ In the existing university model, there was the loan and scholarship elements. The elephant in the room is the testing instrument, which clearly has failed to meet the expectations of our students. Therefore, as you have seen, even after trying to do implementation, there is another committee which has already been set up to look at the same problem. However, since the CS is new, I believe that he is not tainted by the decisions made by the previous CSs. I want to make a recommendation. We need to look at the old model. I know the cost of learning has gone up. Why can you not increase the scholarship and the loan cost on what you call on pro rata basis in such a way that all these issues about the testing model and the household are no longer there? Let us continue with the old model because even if we discuss the issue until the cows come home as long as there is a testing model which has been brought up to muddle the waters, we are not going to get a solution. My proposal is that we need to go back to the old model. We need to increase the amount of money because the cost of learning has gone up; increase the loan element, the cost of the scholarship amount and the loan for the student. So, trying to bundle students in different bands is wrong. Finally, Article 27 talks about discrimination. You cannot discriminate Kenyans. In my view, it is unconstitutional to try and bundle Kenyans into different bands. Therefore, from the start, the CS is out of order. Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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