{"id":578772,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/578772/?format=json","text_counter":207,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. (Ms.) Abdalla","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":382,"legal_name":"Amina Ali Abdalla","slug":"amina-abdalla"},"content":"Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I would like to congratulate the Mover, Hon. Kang’ata, for moving the amendments that are going to be useful in ensuring that poor applicants benefit. I would like to note that if there is an award for pro-poor amendments, it needs to go to Hon. Kang’ata because he seems to have the most number of pro-poor amendments sometimes with unintended consequences like what will happen with Clause 4. The issues in Clause 4 are really good but some of the unintended consequences raised by Hon. Dalmas need to be looked into. We have many poor students who do not get a written reason why they do not get the loans. We are not able to help them because the reasons are unknown. There is need for a letter indicating that they did not succeed in getting the loan because they did not give us enough evidence of “X” or “Y” but documentary is a bit on the extreme side. Probably, that is something we need to eventually look into. With those remarks, I thank the Mover and look forward to a better HELB."}