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    "id": 1563865,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mandago",
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        "legal_name": "Kiplagat Jackson Mandago",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Madam Temporary Speaker, for this opportunity to speak on this Motion. Let me start by saying that I am in support of this Motion proposing to consolidate all the bursaries and make sure that we have free, compulsory and accessible primary and secondary education. This Motion gives us an opportunity as a nation to de-weaponize the use of bursaries for political gain. Political gain is both ways; the electorate and elected leaders. Equally, elected leaders are always under pressure from the electorate who threaten them that if they are not allocated bursary, they will not see the door of Parliament or county assembly or they will not be the governor after the next elections. Therefore, this Motion serves not only the citizens of this country well but also the elected leaders. The responsibility of making sure that all the children of Kenya access education is left with the Executive and Ministry whose sole mandate as per the law and the Constitution is to ensure that all the children of this country access education as their right. We, as a Senate, are not against bursaries. First, we thank policymakers who appeared before us and thought of the good idea of bursary. Bursary has served its purpose for the time it has been in place. We do acknowledge that it has made it possible for some children to advance their education, which they would not have without bursary. However, we want to make the situation better by making sure that there will be no application. There will also be no need to see the chief. One will not need to know their MP, governor, MCA or anybody. A child in Kenya at the right age will just go to school and advance their education. Madam Temporary Speaker, I want to dissuade colleagues who are using political platforms to try and discredit a process that is going to equalize the children of Kenya. Giving this responsibility to the Ministry of Education is actually creating order and making sure that standards are followed in all our schools to make sure that the quality of education improves. Therefore, I fully support this Motion and would like to thank the Senator for Kiambu County, whom I confirm is a villager, who went to a public school, that indeed, this Motion is going to solve the problems that we have had in this country. Madam Temporary Speaker, the Government of Kenya and this country will never lack sufficient resources to be deployed for education. Consolidating the amounts we spend in bursaries in the various dockets, whether in the county governments, Member of Parliament, the Women Representatives, Members of County Assembly, plus the budget that has been going to the Ministry of Education, properly managed and streamlined, is sufficient without looking for additional resources to make education 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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