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    "id": 368610,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kihagi",
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        "legal_name": "John Karanja Kihagi",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for this opportunity. My name is hon. John Karanja Kihagi. I want to acknowledge the presence of Fahari Academy from Naivasha who are here with us. Fahari Academy is a school which my wife and I are directors and, we sponsored quite a number of needy students. So, when hon. Kinoti brought this Motion of a databank on needy students or pupils, it actually touched my heart. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to say that we have all been out there giving bursaries for the last few weeks and we have seen how bursaries are managed in this country. We have seen how the needy children are deprived of opportunities of benefitting from Government bursaries. We have also seen how bright students are denied the opportunity to achieve their best. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, Fahari Academy has the motto of becoming the best. For that reason, there is need to use the resources around here for those needy Kenyans. This country has resources that can assist bright and needy students to become the best that they can. When you look at the resources that are being wasted out there; and when you look at those people who are benefitting from the money that the Government provides, through the CDF or through the Ministry of Education. The people who are getting the money are the able ones, but because of greed and dishonor, they are not able to reach the very needy children in our society. That is why I say that hon. Kinoti Gatobu’s Motion is very important. Information is power and the key in the lives of many people here in Kenya. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we live in the information age. If we can have this databank, it will help us, it will help the needy and it will also help to disseminate information all over the country such that, even as we get philanthropist; people who want to assist in supporting the needy students, we will already have a databank with us and we will be having some information as hon. Members so that we can channel some of this aid that is going to help our constituents. Parents in our constituencies are going to help this country because when a bright child is not empowered; we also know that he can use that brightness to do some very destructive things that will not help the community. With those remarks, I want to support the Motion and urge hon. Kinoti Gatobu to develop the Motion into a Bill, to ensure that we have this databank which will be very crucial for our country and for our youth, who are actually the major beneficiaries of that. Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I support."
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