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    "id": 515683,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/515683/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. F. K. Wanyonyi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2065,
        "legal_name": "Ferdinard Kevin Wanyonyi",
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    "content": "Secondly, in the education sector, we have the free primary education and the free day secondary education coming to about Kshs12 billion. Here, I do not see the Higher Education Loans Board (HELB). You have capitalised on the free primary education and the free day secondary education, but there are no figures for HELB. I have had problems in my constituency with students going for higher education in colleges and universities. I am unable to assist them. When they come to Nairobi, they come back to me and say that they cannot get the money. The bursary funds are not enough. I do not see anything here on HELB. Members, we need to get concerned at this initial stage, so that we can cater for that. I can see Kshs1.17 million for bursaries, but nothing on HELB. I have had a lot of pressure in my constituency because these students are not catered for. I quite agree with the policy of leasing and transferring of vehicles from the Treasury to the Ministry of Interior and Co-ordination of National Government. It is important. Police stations cannot get to the Treasury, but it is easier for their concerns to be raised within their Ministry. It is good for the leasing to be done by the Ministry of Interior and Co-ordination of National Government. I have had cases of Officers Commanding Police Divisions (OCPDs) asking us to help with funds to fuel the vehicles. In fact, some of these vehicles are not well maintained. Some of us are from insecurity prone areas and we need to have these vehicles well-maintained. In this guideline, the vehicles should be transferred. I get amused because much as the vehicles have been leased out, some of these stations do not have Authority to Incur Expenditure (AIE). So, even incurring expenses is a problem. Let us do things right because insecurity in this country is a big problem, particularly for me being at the border of Kenya with Uganda and bordering the nomad areas of the Pokots and the Turkanas where we had a lot of problems because of cattle rustling. In the middle of night, you need services from the police station and they tell you that they do not have fuel for the simple reason that they are not AIE holders. That is again a problem. All in all, I agree with this Policy Statement. We have seen the vehicles being outsourced and transferred from the National Treasury to the Ministry of Interior and Co-ordination of National Government. On security matters, in the early part of last year, we passed a Motion---"
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