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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Lugari, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Nabii Nabwera",
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    "content": "none of them will know. What am I trying to say? Even if you were to create a bursary fund for all, unless that bursary is devolved to constituency level, you will find that some areas will be left out. Some children will be left out. This is a tested model. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I would be calling upon the Cabinet Secretary for Education to improve on the Ministry’s governance structure on how to manage money and its accountability structure on capitation money. When the former Cabinet Secretary for National Treasury and Economic Planning was handing over to the new Cabinet Secretary, Hon. Mbadi, he made a very interesting remark that between the National Treasury and the Ministry of Education, they cannot account for more than Ksh5 billion capitation money. That is a serious issue. That is where the rain starts beating us. In my constituency, out of about 13,000 secondary school students, 30 per cent of them are not in the NEMIS. In some schools in this country, in one term, you get capitation for 600 students, but in the next term, they reduce it to 540 students. But teachers still have all the children and they wonder where capitation for the 60 students has gone. This is a governance issue that we must address as we endeavour to make education free. Maybe this is the time for the House to have this discussion. In a budget of Ksh4 trillion, is it not the right time we reconfigured the way we budget so that we budget for, say Ksh1 billion per constituency? I am talking about Ksh1 billion per constituency and then we distribute that money to various ministries, say Ministry of Water and Ministry of Energy. With the knowledge that my constituency has Ksh1 billion, when I want to do roads, all I need is to sit with the community, do a plan, and take the project to where it is needed most. I request my colleagues that as we go into the new budget cycle, we should be talking about Ksh1 billion per constituency. Thank you."
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