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    "speaker_name": "Bomet East, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Richard Yegon",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker for this opportunity. I would also like to weigh in on this matter which is very emotive. For a long time, we have watched how NG-CDF has distributed bursaries to students and pupils of this country. Probably, this Motion had good intention, but the way it has been drafted, I am not going to support it. We need to discuss in depth and make sure that the monies for bursaries are consolidated and ensure that all the students and pupils in this country go through free primary, secondary and even university education. If that goes as planned and we are assured, I am going to support. We are proposing to task everything to the Ministry of Education. We have seen what the Ministry of Education has done and there has been no equitable leverage and distribution. You will find that throughout the country, each and every region is getting the money required for all students. We have students who come from poor families and as it is said, education is the equaliser for the rich and the poor. We have needy children and if we make sure that all this is made free for the students and the pupils of this country, it will go a long way in alleviating the challenges we are facing in our various constituencies. Additionally, issues of the Presidential Secondary School Bursary, the Ministry of Education capitation and county bursaries are not checked. You will find county governments giving out bursaries to students who have already received money from the national Government while others who are very needy miss out. This double allocation of bursaries to students is very rampant at the moment and something has to be done to address it in this House. I oppose."
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