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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Capt. Nakitare",
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        "legal_name": "Davis Wafula Nakitare",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. This Motion is very important in terms of enhancement and improvement of education. However, before I go on, I would like to highlight a few things that the HELB has to take into account. Currently, in order to maintain a university student, one requires over US$23,000. That is a lot of money. In the past years, the HELB gave money to students and assured them of employment. The revolving fund system that was set up was intended to help students who join university as freshmen. The Government used to offer the graduands a two-year contract job so that they could repay the loans. However, by giving a student a loan, you are essentially committing him financially. If at the end of the student's graduation he is unemployed, how will the Government recover the money from him? The Government has to come up with a solution to sort out this issue. It has to go back to the drawing board from the past years where students were given loans and assured that after graduation they would be assimilated in Ministries so that they could repay the loans. Otherwise, the Kshs800 million the HELB is operating on is peanuts. I do not think this is reasonable because of the rise in population in our education system. I do not see how this kind of money will be budgeted for when we already have in place Free Primary Education and Free Secondary Education. In our universities today, we have both residential students and those pursuing parallel degree programmes. We also have a programme for adult education in our universities. All these 4166 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES September 26, 2007 people want to pursue higher education and so we need to have a vision, say, for 50 years from now. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, CDF has proved itself to be a homegrown Government project. I think that the financial aspects of CDF will take care of this euphoria of"
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