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    "id": 1563739,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherarkey",
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, we must be careful in this country about what we wish for. If we want a hybrid or pre-presidential system, why would we want to give bursaries as politicians? Just to allow political patronage? To enslave our children? To fight and ensure our children are given? You will hear someone in the small towns and villages saying: “I did not get a bursary because I did not vote for Mheshimiwa”. We must be honest that we must consolidate this issue of bursaries. I wish and I pray at the end of this debate on this consolidation, that the Committee on Education led by Sen. Betty Montet and Members who are in this House will come up with an amendment to the Basic Education Act or the education laws that we have in this country and consolidate all the bursaries, bring quantification. I am happy the miracle Senator is here - I do not know whether he is still a miracle or not - so we can consolidate all the bursaries and account for Kshs656 billion. The political formation he is in nowadays is no longer miraculous. Under Article 53 of the Constitution of Kenya, we must ensure that these young people enjoy the right to education. A number of these young people even at the Kenya Medical Training Colleges (KMTCs) also need bursary. How do we do it? Let us make education free and compulsory from preschool all the way to the university and colleges, so that we stop having the Higher Education Loans Board (HELB). We ought to collapse HELB, so that we do not bring discrimination as envisaged in the Constitution of Kenya. Students in public universities are given higher education loans, which is taxpayers’ money, including all Kenyans. Yet, children in private universities are not. It casts aspersions and a shadow of discrimination in our society. Madam Temporary Speaker, the issue of capitation is prayer number three. We need to also be told because as we talk, the Kenya Secondary School Heads Association (KESSHA) has been complaining of delayed capitation that is being given to either primary or secondary schools across the country. I find it untidy that after every opening of schools, you hear KESSHA, the Kenya Primary School Heads Association, Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) and Kenya Union of Post Primary Teachers (KUPPET) complaining that capitation is yet to be released. The other day was removal of hardship allowances in some areas. That was the worst. Hardship allowances should be the motivating factor for all public servants and also the teachers in our country, especially if you work in places such as Mandera. We have had opportunity of going there, where at the airstrip has virtually no landing place. There is no electricity, but only three dysfunctional generators. I am told it is being switched on and off like--- 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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