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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kisang",
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        "legal_name": "William Kipkemoi Kisang",
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    "content": "first day you reported to the university. This was until you cleared the third, fourth, or fifth year, depending on the course you were taking. We used to get an automatic scholarship from HELB and were paid a stipend of Kshs5,040. That would take care of us the entire semester. Our parents did not have to struggle to support us in the university. This is what we need to do. We need to go back to what we used to do in the old days so that our children can go to school without suffering or dropping out. Nowadays because of depression, many children are committing suicide. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, as Sen. Osotsi has said, it is not the business of the county governments to give out bursaries. Their business is to do development. Currently, most of the counties are paying recurrent expenditures that are over 70 per cent. Our counties have become employment bureaus. We have NG-CDF and NGAAF bursaries. We even have county government giving out presidential bursaries. The Ministry of Education does not release capitation to our primary and secondary schools. When the academic year elapses, they do not remit the remainder of that money to the schools. I do not know why the Ministry is making our schools struggle. They need to remit capitation so that they do not use it as a corrupt entity. A good proposal that we need to do to encourage the marginalised county children to go to school is to ensure we have a feeding programme. The pupils must be given lunch, so that they can go to school. I know most of our universities are struggling as most colleagues have said and it is because of mismanagement. If Moi University took loans to establish Masinde Muliro University, Garissa University and the University of Eldoret, then these universities should pay the debt. Why must one university carry the burden for all its children? Those universities or the Ministry of Education must assist Moi University in paying off the Kshs4 billion so that it can at least regain its feet. This was the second university after the University of Nairobi. Then came Kenyatta University and Egerton University. The others are thriving, but this one is struggling. It is almost being closed because of debt. We need to support this programme and consolidate it. We should take the money to an entity like HELB, but not the Ministry of Education because we have seen that they are unable to manage bursaries themselves. They have the presidential bursary and capitation, but are doing nothing about it. I thank you and support this Motion. As colleagues have said, we reward it and resolve it. Otherwise, if it goes the way it is, then it will be like a talk show. We are urging and what happens when you do? It is like we are begging. However, if you resolve as a House, it then becomes implementable. The House can follow it up to ensure that the resolutions are implemented. I thank you."
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