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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Nyamu",
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    "content": "we cannot say that education is a great equalizer yet. What we have done is made bursaries the great un-equalizer. This is because the most vulnerable of society, who do not have connections, who are in the direst need, end up missing out on bursaries. If you do not have any political connections, if you do not have a phone number of any politician or members of his team, then you can forget accessing bursaries in this country. I also happen to run and be a patron of Karen Nyamu Foundation and often channel funds to sponsor secondary education through our Foundation. As much as I do the identification, quite openly, and on my Facebook page, I usually look for the neediest child with the highest marks in Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE). After we are able to sponsor, say, 50 students who performed well in their KCPE in all their four years of secondary school education, after you are done with this exercise, instead of feeling satisfied, and like you have done something, the students who missed out on this opportunity linger in your mind, and you wonder what will happen to them. Will somebody come through for them? We have cases in this Nairobi of students who end up deferring their secondary education. They go up to Form Two and are unable to fund their education due to poverty. They drop out and when they get some assistance, they go back again after a year. Madam Temporary Speaker, this is not something that we should be condoning as a society. This Motion is one of the reasons we exist as a House. The Motion is very progressive. It is going to ensure that we create a level playing field in the country, and to give every child a chance at education. While we are at it, as a House, we need to come up with radical changes in our system of education. It is one thing to fund education and another to churn out students who are not ready for the job market. Our schools are churning out students who are being prepared to be job seekers. We need to inculcate an entrepreneurial culture right from the basic education, so that by the time they get to the Technical Industrial Vocation Education and Training (TVET) even the attitude has changed. Right now, it is even embarrassing to go to TVETs because they are considered institutions for those who unable to get the mainstream or traditional courses. I congratulate Sen. Karungo wa Thang’wa for being such a young progressive leader, always with his mind at the right place. I support."
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