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    "id": 88185,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mungatana",
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        "legal_name": "Danson Buya Mungatana",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, it is good for us to remember the history of students financing in Kenya. In 1952, the Higher Loans Fund, a form of HELB, was formed. Its purpose at that time when we were still under the British colonial rule was the same as today; to help finance students for further studies. At that time, the financing that was available was strictly for those who wished to study outside East Africa. It was on scholarship basis; there was nobody who was going to pay back. At that time, the students used to go to universities in the United Kingdom, South Africa and United States of America. Those were the days when the student population was very low. In 1952, the conditions were allowing even for full scholarships for students and many people benefitted. But times have changed just like the Motion has stated. The prevailing economic circumstances have changed. In fact, it is not the first time that we are thinking about how to change students financing. At that time, it became impossible to continue funding students solely on scholarships. It became impossible to cope because the numbers started increasing. The Government then responded by saying: Let us put up another scheme, which they called the University Students Loans Scheme. This was put and formatted in a way that showed that instead of people getting scholarships, which had become unaffordable, they should get loans. This means that people will be educated, but afterwards, they are expected to pay back. That was not successful because, at that time, people had the attitude of the earlier scheme in which people were not paying back the money. In fact, the University Students Loan Scheme, which was in place at that time, did not even have legal power to take back the money when people had already used. They could not effect the recovery of the money legally from those who defaulted the loans."
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