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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Thang’wa",
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    "content": "is why I am calling for that consolidation and making sure that we get to know how much and if we can approximate that will be about Kshs50 billion going to bursaries. Now that we know how much goes to bursaries, let me now tackle the question of how it is disbursed and why this Motion is very important. There is a lot of fragmentation. Fragmentation means five people are giving bursaries, but nobody knows who is giving whom because there is no coordination. The president will give somebody in a certain constituency in a certain ward. The MCA, does not even know who that person is. The Woman Representative will give a bursary to a certain county in a certain ward, the MCA will not know who got a bursary from the Woman Representative. The MP will give a bursary to a certain constituency in a certain ward, the MCA will not know who was given a bursary by the MP because there is no data. We cannot be able to know who was given a bursary and by whom. Even when the governor is giving or issuing the bursaries, sometimes you do not know who received the bursary. Even when the MCA now is also giving a bursary, the MP does not know who was given by the MCA, the Woman Representative, the President, and even the Governor, probably do not know the person who was given a bursary by the MCA, and this brings about multiple allocations. So, if somebody is in the village and as we say, his or her aerial is way higher, they will know when the bursary is given by the governor, when it is given by the MCA, when it is given by the Woman Representative and when it is given by the MP or even by the President. So, you will find that such a person will benefit from every politician. Some of them even get more than they require for their children in school. That is why we are saying we need to align this; that an MCA should know who was given a bursary by the MP. The MP should also know the person who was given a bursary by the MCA or Woman Representative or the President, so that we deal with inefficiency and duplication. If we cannot cure this duplication, we are losing money. That is why this Motion is suggested that instead of sending an MP, an MCA, the President or anyone, the question I ask here before on this Floor, why can we not take all these bursaries and put them in school, especially secondary schools, so that we can make secondary education free of charge? What stops us from doing that? We can add it to the capitation so that one does not have to go kneel to a politician to get bursary. That way we will know how much is needed for education. When the Cabinet Secretary for Education was here, I asked him if he had costed the education of every child. The Cabinet Secretary said that they do not know. So, we even budget for things that we do not know. So, this Motion is telling the Cabinet Secretary and the Ministry of Education to calculate the cost of education per learner and make this information public for primary, secondary and tertiary institutions. This includes a detailed breakdown of the annual financial requirements for each student across the country. We need to know if I get to form one, how much does that child need to have for his or her education until the end of the year? We are still dealing with problems of the current system of bursary issuance; the favouritism, the nepotism and the politicisation. Sometimes, I feel like crying when I see The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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