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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kemei",
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        "legal_name": "Justice Kipsang Kemei",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity. As I rise, I am in full support of the amendments brought by Hon. Kang’ata. If we look at most of our school-going children, we will realise that they attain the age of 17 by the time they are due to join colleges and universities. If we were to deny them a chance to apply for loans on the basis of not having identification documents, we will be going against their rights as citizens of this country. Secondly, my colleagues have spoken about the need to expand this loan to cover students in all higher learning institutions. We should not restrict them to universities. We should have students learning in the Kenya Polytechnic University College, Kenya Medical Training College (KMTC) and other institutions that we have in this country, getting access to this facility. Thirdly, we need to create harmony between the higher loans disbursements, disbursements from the CDF and disbursements from the county governments so that, by and large, we are fair to the students requiring those facilities. If you look at the way we are disbursing the funds at the moment, you will find that bursaries from the county governments and those from the CDF are not harmonised. If we extend this to the HELB, The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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