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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Thang’wa",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, it is time for this House to dignify our mothers. They should not be sitting down waiting for an MP, a Governor, an MCA or a Women Representative to give them bursary that they then take to a Government school as bursary. The same Government can send that money direct to the school and make education free. I always ask myself, why should the Government give you money to go pay a Government institution? Just look at that; the Government is giving you money to go pay Government institution. Why not channel that money to secondary schools as part of capitation programme, so that we make education free? Madam Temporary Speaker, who has the bursary? The same Cabinet Secretary yesterday told us that even the President has bursary that is domiciled in the State Department for Labour and Skills Development. The House was not aware of this, but we were made aware of it. We could not understand this. The MP, Women Representative, Governor and MCAs all have bursaries. The only person who does not have a bursary is the Senator. If someone would want to argue that they want the bursary because they were elected and would want to give back to the people, then they should come and learn from this House. That you can lead people without making them sit down on the ground so that you give them Kshs2,000 for bursary. That money can go directly to the schools, the same way money from the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) now known as Social Health Insurance Fund (SHIF), goes directly to hospitals. We do not give MPs or politicians to take that money to the people by going around asking for sick people in order to give them Kshs2,000 go to the hospital. If we do not do so with health, let us not do so with education. What is this Motion trying to cure? There is a lot of inefficiency and duplication in issuance of bursary. As I mentioned, we have about five elected leaders who disburse bursary. However, they have no framework or network to connect and get to know who was given the bursary. Therefore, one person who is very active and politically aware can get a bursary from the MCA, MP, Women Representative, Governor or the President. All of them will issue that person a bursary and there is no way of them knowing there was duplication. Madam Temporary Speaker, it has been said that there is a lot of duplication and inefficiency in the issuance of bursaries. So, to cure it, we need to consolidate all these bursaries and send them to secondary schools as part of the capitation to make education free. There is a lot of corruption and bias when it comes to the issuance of bursaries. I can give you a case scenario of how they steal money from the bursaries. This is what the MPs do; I am not saying they steal. I want to explain how they do it and then I will tell you how it is stolen. When they issue a bursary, if there are 10 students or 20 from one institution, one cheque is written. If, for example, you are in a certain constituency and you want to issue a bursary to about 40 students in the same secondary school, one cheque is written. When that cheque is written, because the name of the person or the beneficiary cannot be written, the name of the school is written. When the cheque reaches the school, for them to know who that money belongs to, they must attach a list of all the The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only.A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and Audio Services,Senate."
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