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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kihagi",
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        "legal_name": "John Karanja Kihagi",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to thank Hon. Irungu Kang’ata for donating a minute to me and for bringing this Bill to amend the HELB Act. It is very important that all the stakeholders be involved in the management of issues that appertain to them. The student leadership and representation in this Board is of paramount importance. However, the method of how we nominate them to the Board has to be discussed and regulated. My proposal, as we will be putting it in the Third Reading is that we have a council of university students leaders to elect one of them to represent them in the Board. Again, with regard to the fact that a student or a beneficiary has to be the one to inform the Board of when he has got a job, that should not be the case. This is subject to abuse. Again, we will be bringing an amendment towards effecting the same. On the multiplicity of bursary schemes and grants to university and college students, it is also a very abusive way of spending our money. We also need to look at how we can harmonise all these grants and bursaries that are being given to students. I have been trying to bring a revolving Fund in the CDF through HELB, so that we can give our students money as bursaries in the CDF through the HELB. I do not see why we give a bursary to a person who is becoming a lawyer next month and it is just a grant. That person should repay that money whether he got it through the CDF or the county government, so that it can benefit generations after him. I thank you Hon. Kang’ata."
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