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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Sabina Chege",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. At the outset, I am very happy when I see Members on the divide happy about the Budget, the allocations and the distribution that have been done. I was just reflecting on the journey that we have come as a nation from 1963 when we got our Independence. There are three things that the founding fathers wanted to fight in this nation; poverty, ignorance and diseases. It is very interesting that we are still speaking the same language and addressing the same things. Ignorance is about our education sector. I am very happy that we are trying to address the issue of university funding. Especially the funding model where we have many students who qualify to join university, but cannot proceed because of the high fees. I am just hoping that as the majority of us in this House went through the university using the Higher Education Loans Board (HELB), that we can finally have a proper solution for HELB. This will ensure that once somebody is admitted in the university, they automatically qualify for HELB. It will also ensure that parents do not have to worry whether their children will join the university or not. As they go in, we shall have a way to determine the level where we can assist the student, without making it complicated. Some of these things are so easy! I do not know why we complicate them for our students in such a way that we have very bright students who miss education because of lack of fees. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for informationpurposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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