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    "id": 555692,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/555692/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nassir",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2433,
        "legal_name": "Abdulswamad Sheriff Nassir",
        "slug": "abdulswamad-sheriff-nassir"
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    "content": "We are in leadership at a time when this country has one of the highest rates of unemployment and the highest number of youth lacking the capacity to get an income. Therefore, we need to allow the young people of this country who have not attained university levels, but have managed to get enrolment for diploma courses and other courses, to apply for HELB. The HELB should not be biased towards any particular level of higher education. Section 15(b) of the mother Act is totally unconstitutional. It says that it is the obligations of the loanee to begin repayment of his loan, together with any interest accrued thereon. First of all, it has already given a gender bias by just limiting his and not her. That, in itself, is totally wrong. Secondly, the HELB has totally pegged itself on interest. Just like any other Muslim in this country, I do not believe in interest. I would like to refer to the Preamble of our Constitution. We need to be proud of our ethnic, cultural and religious diversity. We need to be determined to live in peace and unity as one indivisible sovereign nation. We need to be committed to nurturing and protecting the wellbeing of the individual, the families, communities and nation and recognising the aspirations of all Kenyans for a government based on the essential values of human rights, equality freedom, democracy, social justice and the rule of law."
}