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    "id": 1502364,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Elgeyo Marakwet County, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Caroline Ng’elechei",
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    "content": "I applaud the President for realizing that in our society, we are not equal. We are different. Individual people have been blessed differently. It is very unfortunate that a Member of Parliament like myself and my neighbour, who may not have had enough resources to be able to educate and feed his children, was required to pay the same amount of fees at the university. However, the new model, having put different categories of students in different bands, every Kenyan student is now able to access university education. There was a crisis in this country. Many people did not realize that most of the public universities were in ICU financially. They were dying. I am an alumnus of Moi University. As we speak, I am very sad because I do not know whether it will sink or float. How will I tell the story to my grandchildren in future of the university that I went to? It will be very shameful to say that I went to a defunct or dead university. I want to believe that the new university education funding model will be able to revive our dying public universities and give chance to the less fortunate members of our society. I am sure that Hon. Members of Parliament, as well as members of the society, will be happy because there will be fewer Harambee meetings to attend to make sure that all the university students continue with their education. I was very happy with the President’s Speech because he spoke about fertiliser subsidy. I come from Elgeyo Marakwet County, which is an agricultural region. Due to the fertiliser subsidy and the good weather that God has blessed us with, farmers got a bumper harvest. As Hon. Members may be aware, Uganda has closed her borders, and the Government is not allowing exportation of maize to Kenya. This is because their country was not blessed with as much rainfall as our country was in the last season. This has cushioned Kenyans from food shortage this year. I advise the governors to ensure delivery of fertilisers to interior places in their counties. An example is Chesoi in Elgeyo Marakwet County…"
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