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    "id": 555634,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Rotino",
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        "legal_name": "Philip Lotiolo Ruto Rotino",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to join my colleagues in supporting this very important Bill. First of all, I congratulate the Member for bringing this very important Bill and thinking through. We know education is vital for everybody. Some of us come from arid and semi arid areas where school fees is a real problem. HELB has gone a long way in assisting our students to get education. It has helped those communities which have problems raising school fees. It is important that we create conducive atmosphere for all the students, so that we do not duplicate bursaries, as my colleagues have said. We have bursaries from the counties, the CDF and the HELB. We should harmonise these bursaries so that a student does not get bursaries from all these kitties. Many students come behind and apply through the Member of Parliament to the CDF yet they have applied for bursaries to all these other kitties. We should not have one student getting money from these different institutions. My colleagues have spoken about the grace period. I have seen many students being asked to repay the loans yet they do not have any employment. On the grace period that my colleagues have talked about, I have seen many students being told to pay money and yet they are unemployed. It is good that this Bill will address that so that, at least, the students who have not been employed their names are not taken to the Bureau before they write a letter to the Board explaining they cannot repay the loan they took from the Higher Education Loans Board (HELB)."
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