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    "id": 555659,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/555659/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Onyura",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Michael Aringo Onyura",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this Bill. The HELB has played a very important role in our education system. I commend those who started it; it was very visionary of them. The HELB has helped very many Kenyan students who would perhaps have missed university education. It is, therefore, an important Fund. Any improvement, like the one that Hon. Kang’ata has proposed, is worth supporting. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we have many students who sit for the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examination every year. Many of them get the minimum requirement to join universities but we still end up with thousands who miss opportunity to join public universities. So, they revert to either enrolling in the Parallel Degree Programmes offered by public universities as self-sponsored students, or enrolling in private universities. I wish to state that if this Fund is expanded, as some hon. Members have already suggested, it will be a saviour for students who get the minimum requirement for joining public universities but end up not doing so. I will, therefore, support any suggestions to appropriate more funds to the HELB. I always pray that no Kenyan child should miss education or be limited to a certain level because of lack of money or because they are poor. We should facilitate all our children so that they can get the education they want up to the levels that their abilities can take them."
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