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    "id": 1492129,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Olekina",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 407,
        "legal_name": "Ledama Olekina",
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    "content": "This Motion will achieve some significant progress if only it focuses entirely on auditing county bursary funds. We need to start from there. This Motion would achieve significant progress if designed to audit the funds being allocated by the Ministry of Education. The Ministry of Education is at the national level. The Acts in county governments are County Government Acts. I do not want my brother to misquote me on this - that I fully support his intention. I think he is on to something very big; something that will be able to bring discipline. The truth is there is discriminated against the people in this country. You are poor, yet you cannot get a bursary to take you to school. I told Sen. Thang’wa that I do not see in the need for bursaries 21st Century because we are no longer a less developed country. We should have free primary and secondary education so that there is no child who will have to go and beg a representative to pay for them school fees. God bless the former President of this country, the late His Excellency Mwai Kibaki, for what he did. In fact, last night I was watching a documentary on him. He did something significant. He introduced free primary education and encouraged so many children to go to school. The only way we can achieve progress is to audit all county governments' bursary funds. I encourage Sen. Thang’wa to follow that route. We have a committee, which I believe we are Members with him. The first thing to do is bring a statement so that we audit every county bursary fund. Right now, we are struggling. We need to develop a policy. The only way that we can achieve something great with that is to follow the route that this Parliament, which is the National Assembly and the Senate, did when it comes to the issue of health Facility Improvement Fund (FIF). When that national legislation came in place, there was no reason as to why county governments could not have their own funds to manage their hospitals. We already have one big fund. I encourage Sen. Thang’wa to introduce a piece of legislation that amends all other legislations. He then defines the structure of how these bursaries will be distributed instead of it being given to individuals. Let us carry out a survey. For example, we can go to a school that I went to, Ole Sankale Primary School, to find out how many children cannot pay for their uniform or books and give them some form of capitation that allows them to go school. 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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