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    "id": 1474789,
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    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Caroli Omondi",
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    "content": " Thank you very much. Hon. Speaker, I will try to be very brief. We have looked at this matter several times. I think the issue is just about accessibility and affordability of education. Having said that, let me make a proposal. For this university funding model to work, as I said last time, the applications should be made while the students are still in high school, even before they sit for exams. That is where all information about their financial records and how they have been paying fees is. They have teachers and counsellors to guide them. I think the application for loans should be made before the students leave school. Secondly, determining what somebody should get as a scholarship, a loan or aid is a financial question. If you look at the MTI to determine the household income, the parameters are sociocultural. How do you answer financial questions using sociocultural parameters? As I said last time, let us use financial tools to determine financial income or needs of every student. The range of information is available out there. You have mentioned tax records. There are also M-PESA records of the guardians, employment records, and other Government systems like social protection. There is a range of financial tools that we can use to make that determination. I would like to suggest that we also include, in this funding model, medical insurance for students. It is not covered in any of the tools. Finally, this may be a little radical but I think it is time that, as Members of Parliament, we looked for ways and means of dedicating more resources to improve university facilities. One of them is to cut political party funding and dedicate those resources to university education. Thank you very much."
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