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    "id": 1510326,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Osotsi",
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        "legal_name": "Osotsi Godfrey Otieno",
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    "content": "This fund should have stringent rules on who the beneficiaries should be. The needy students who are at home can benefit from this scheme and they can undertake their studies without any problem. How I wish the bursary funds in this country could borrow from a private fund that I know of; the Rattansi Education Fund, which targets mainly needy students at the university level. That fund has done so well. I was one of the beneficiaries of it. They are still supporting so many needy cases in our public universities. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, even as we talk about consolidation, the issue of how to identify beneficiaries and ensure that they get sufficient funding for their education will be very key. Otherwise, you can consolidate and you end up with the same problem that we are trying to deal with; the problem of not targeting the needy cases. This Motion is very timely and all of us should support it so that it is adopted by our government to assist in allocating bursaries to our students. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I have a slightly different view on the resolution that is in this Motion. The Motion talks about “the Senate urges the Ministry of Education---” We should not be wasting our time with this kind of resolution. ‘Urges’ means that this is just a talk show. We are just discussing here, what a Swahili person would say – GumzoMtaani . We need Motions that talk about resolution. This Motion should read- “The Senate resolves that the Ministry of Education to do this and this---” From my experience in the National Assembly, the Executive never took such Motions seriously because there was no action."
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