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    "id": 1476632,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nambale, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Geoffrey Mulanya",
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    "content": "Most Kenyans can afford to pay their children's school fees so they take them to boarding schools. It does not make sense to amalgamate NG-CDF with other funds and place this under the Ministry of Education, which cannot even release capitation funds to schools. Members of Parliament will inform you that every time they meet with principals of schools, their major problem is late release of capitation to schools. As a House, we only need legislation which will ensure we deal with the issue of duplication. That, if a child benefits from NG-CDF bursary, they should not benefit from the Ministry of Education bursary. My colleague, Hon. Toroitich, mentioned that the areas with duplication of bursaries are the wards and counties, yet under the Fourth Schedule of our Constitution basic education is a function of the national Government. The county governments' responsibility under the Constitution is to offer Free Primary Education. They have abandoned their primary duties and jumped into performing the functions of the national Government. As you will note from last Friday's court ruling, the NG-CDF Act was declared unconstitutional. One of the reasons cited was that it is attempting to delve into devolved functions, for instance sports and environmental activities. If the functions of education are left to the national Government, we must have monies for bursaries limited to it and monies channelled to county governments for bursaries forwarded to the Ministry of Education for disbursement to needy students. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I oppose this Motion."
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