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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Olekina",
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        "legal_name": "Ledama Olekina",
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    "content": "Thank you Madam Temporary Speaker. I would like to seek your indulgence with my vocals today. Let me begin by saying that I oppose this Motion. I oppose it because it takes us back into the 20th Century, where we defined the rich and the poor based on their ability to afford education. In the 21st Century, we need to be thinking about how to make education absolutely free for our children. I long for the days when the former President, now late, President Mwai Kibaki, abolished all tuition fees and all school fees in schools, thus increasing enrolment in schools and helping this country advance to a middle- income economy. Madam Temporary Speaker, bursaries are defined as a way of sort of like increasing the gap between the rich and the poor because we, politicians, will only be able to reward our friends and our cronies. I have looked keenly at the recommendations and what the Senator for Kiambu County is seeking us to do is to add the Ministry of Education to carry out the following functions. One, is to audit the funds allocated to bursaries by both the national Government and county governments. First of all, I think that is completely misguided. The Auditor- General is the only one who has the capacity to audit how much money is allocated to bursaries in county governments and the the national Government because the Auditor- General is the only one with the mandate to audit county government funds. We are having a big problem with the Controller of Budget (CoB) seeking to be given permission to be able to see how money flows in the counties; to be able to have an eye on the accounts of the county governments. If the CoB is not being given that ability to be able to scrutinize and see, who tells you that the Ministry of Education, which is a monster and national Government entity, will be given the permission by the county governments to audit that? I think that is completely misguided. The second one, which is to consolidate the funds distributed by various Government entities and agencies, with the aim of directing these funds directly to 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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