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    "id": 1492130,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Olekina",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 407,
        "legal_name": "Ledama Olekina",
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    "content": "I can see my time is running out. However, it is important for us to calculate the cost of education per learner and make this information public for primary, secondary and tertiary institutions, including a detailed breakdown of the annual financial requirement for each student across the country. I fully support Sen. Thang’wa on this. I beseech him to pursue the root of coming up with a national legislation to manage bursaries. When you follow that step, please do not start an authority. Sit down with our legal counsel and come up with a piece of legislation, which is brief on how those funds should be managed. If you end up setting up another authority, you will be making some people grow their bellies double than they can to grow and continue to encourage corruption. You may need to look at the Public Finance Management Act to see how that money can be utilised. Ultimately, a time will come when all of us will have a conversation of auditing our Constitution, but not now. I want to be honest. I do not want to anticipate debate, but I do not think this country will entertain any argument of amending the Constitution at this time. However, there will be a time when we will audit our Constitution to see the gains, hindrances or barriers in it. That time, we can entrench the issue of bursaries in the Constitution so that we can do away with the mandarins of State House who apply for bursaries for their children when they can afford to send them to school. However, because they have access, they get the bursary. When you travel to London, Boston or New York, you will meet children who say they were given a bursary by the State House. When you interrogate them further to get to know who their father is and what they, you will find that the father is a doctor. This is despite the fact that there is an A student child in Kakamega or Narok County, who cannot even afford a pair of shoes and can never get access to that State House money. You will find that there is money in the Ministry of Education to fund children from the disadvantaged backgrounds. However, they end up funding children of the staff in the Ministry of Education. In county governments, the people who will be given bursaries are people whose parents are working in the bursary fund. Remember that in every county government, there is a bursary fund and a board. This is where people get their allowances. They get their money from selling those bursaries. They can sit down and agree that they will allocate themselves a certain amount of money. You know how we are in Kenya. You are sitting on a board or the Budget Committee of the National Assembly. While there, you are asking whether the money for the road you want to be constructed has been appropriated. Since you are the one who will bring in the contractor to build the road. For bursaries, people on the board will take an amount from selling the bursaries to the people who are your supporters on the ground. I do not know whether to support it. However, I will leave it there with those comments that I made. Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker."
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