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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Olekina",
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        "legal_name": "Ledama Olekina",
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    "content": "government, the national Government and the county government. Which county government will allow the Ministry of Education, which we know very well, that it is a body which falls under the national Government, to audit bursaries that are being given by MPs, MCAs, or governors? It is important that sometimes when we come up with Motions, we become realistic. There is no county government entity, which will allow the Ministry of Education to audit bursaries unless that function has now been transferred to the national Government. It is important that when we are here we become realistic. Let us talk about consolidation. Number two says, consolidate the funds distributed by various Government entities and agencies with the aim of directing them directly to schools and supplementary capitation to facilitate the achievement of free secondary education. Madam Temporary Speaker, unless we amend all the 47 counties Bursaries Acts, if you go to Narok County today, you will find that there is a Bursary Act. Unless we come up with a piece of legislation. I want to challenge my friend, Sen. Thang’wa, a Motion will not help you in this case. I can stand here and say I agree with you that bursaries are great because they allow children who are from very disadvantaged backgrounds to go to school. In fact, I will say here with a lot of pride that I was educated through bursary from the Narok County Council. My parents could pay little money when I was in high school. I went to the USA. When I came back to the country and I funded over 25,000 girls to go to school through my other means. However, it is going to be practically impossible to consolidate funds distributed by various Government entities because the Ministry of Education does not have that mandate. First of all, I would have been so happy if my dear brother, Sen. Thang’wa, would have said, we are moving a Motion to audit all the bursaries distributed by the Ministry of Education. I would have been very happy to entirely support it if my brother would have said, let us audit all county assemblies---"
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