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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kinoti",
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        "legal_name": "Boniface Gatobu Kinoti",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I first want to strongly congratulate my colleague, Hon. Kang’ata, for moving this very important amendment. I also congratulate the Chief Executive Officer of HELB. For the years he has been there, he has done an exemplary job in transforming the Board. I also wish to congratulate Parliament because it will go down in history as one of the Parliaments that have done most in making education affordable to Kenyans especially all the way from primary, secondary to higher education. As much as we want to reform the HELB, with these noble amendments, we still need to do a lot in Parliament. The HELB had requested for Kshs9.3 billion, but we are only funding them to the tune of Kshs4.9 in the Budget that we will get tomorrow. So, as much as we want to make the recovery of the loans more friendly, it is still a burden to the HELB. So, as Parliament, we should think of how much more funding we can avail to make education affordable through the HELB. Secondly, I wish to note that it is a very noble thought to include students in the Board, but it is also important to note that HELB also gives funding to technical and vocational training institutes. So, in the Third Reading, apart from including students from private and public universities, we must also include a representative from the technical training institutes in the Board. With those few remarks, I support the Bill."
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