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    "id": 874225,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker Sir, for the opportunity to request for a Statement. Pursuant to Standing Order No. 48(1), and for the benefit of the Senator for Wajir County, this is the Standing Order under which you can make comments if you wish. I rise to seek a Statement from the Standing Committee on Education regarding the directive by the Cabinet Secretary (CS) for Education to have Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) loan defaulters arrested by the Police. In the statement, the Committee should:- 1. State the total number of beneficiaries of the HELB loans since its inception, the number of beneficiaries who have paid up the loan, the number of defaulters and the cumulative amount of money for each category. 2. Explain why the CS has issued a directive to have defaulters of HELB loans arrested yet most of them remain unemployed long after they cleared institutions of higher learning. 3. Explain whether the Ministry is planning to come up with a policy to write-off loans of beneficiaries who, due to joblessness, are unable to repay their loans just like the Government has written-off loans to coffee, tea and dairy farmers. 4. Explain the measures that the Government has put in place to ensure that the youth who graduate from institutions of higher learning are gainfully employed to realize its zeal for loan repayment."
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