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    "id": 1510346,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Abass",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Abass Sheikh Mohamed",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I also want to join my colleagues to support the Bill on Consolidation of Bursary Funds for Equitable Access to Education. As you are aware, pursuant to Article 53 of the Constitution, every child has a right for basic education and to access institutions. However, today, if you look across Kenya, there are so many children that do not go to school. The schools may not even be there because of the situation where they are, especially in the pastoral areas. In the pastroral areas, many people lost their animals and the children have dropped out of school. They stay in the rural areas and they are not able to access school fees. After falling out of their own livelihood, they again drop out of schools because of lack of fees. Bursaries money is available all over. It is not only the NGAAF or the NG-CDF money. There is the presidential bursaries and governor's bursary. Churches are paying money and many other foundations are paying money. However, the money that is being paid by all these institutions hardly reaches the needy students. It is mostly compromised. It has been full of nepotism that the only privileged students are managing to go to school. Those students who have no fathers and relatives hardly see this money. We have a new curriculum called CBC and many people are exiting. We have millions of children going through that programme. Every child is supposed to go to university after high school. However, funds are not released for them to be in school. The money is not even available sometimes then you are telling us that everybody must go to school up to university. That is a good idea. However, there are no systematic programmes for availing funds when students exit high school to university or primary to high school. The infrastructure in JSS in my place is poor. Most of the things do not even exist. There are no structures. I think the education system in this country is almost collapsing because of poor management and things being done hurriedly."
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