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    "id": 1476601,
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    "speaker_name": "Budalangi, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Raphael Wanjala",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me a chance to contribute to this extremely important Motion. Education is an equalizer. If you ask these Members which families they come from, each one of them has a history to tell on how they grew up, how they were brought up and what they were doing. Education has helped them to be where they are today. Despite the fact that some of them come from poor families while others come from rich families, today they are earning the same salary and enjoy the same privileges. They know how to live among each other because of education. They also know how to communicate. Even when they go to Europe, they know how to live with people, talk, address others and how to associate because of education. Therefore, education is key in each one of our lives because it makes us equal. Hon. Temporary Speaker, education, as enshrined in our Constitution is a right. When something is inscribed in our Constitution as a right that cannot be varied. Let it remain so for all our young children to access it without hinderance. That is why I want to congratulate Hon. Passaris for bringing this Motion. When I was in school, there were no bursaries and we suffered since we came from poor families. That is why I am saying that each one of us has a history of where they have come from. However, today bursaries are being abused. They are being abused because there are presidential bursaries but the President in State House does not know which child is poor and is supposed to be given that money. He sends other people who have personal interests to issue the bursaries. Today, you will find a Member of County Assembly (MCA) and a governor giving bursaries. Why are they giving bursaries yet higher education is not devolved? That is why Hon. Zamzam said, if the Governor of Mombasa got Ksh600 million to distribute to students within that county with six constituencies, it means each constituency got Ksh100 million. That Ksh100 million is enough for every student in that constituency to go to school without any problem. You will find that while he has given the Ksh600 million, the Member of Parliament has given about Ksh40 million, and the MCA, the President, and Woman Representative have also given their bursaries. This a lot of money that is going to waste. Sometimes most of it is embezzled. How is it embezzled? Some people will fill the forms, take them to schools, collude with bursars and money is sent to those schools as if they are paying for the students and later they will come and collect it. That is why we are in support that today we need to consolidate and amalgamate all the money that is dismembered in various offices…"
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