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    "id": 913223,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/913223/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Chairman. I thank my Chairman for giving me this opportunity. I hear the concerns of Members. Let me explain. We have 183,000 students in TVETs with a capitation of Kshs30,000. We required about Kshs5.4 billion. We allocated part of the money that had been set aside for labs for the DLB and Kshs1.5 billion towards capitation. The Budget and Appropriations Committee was generous enough to add more money and we ended up with Kshs6 billion. But we also realised at that point that we had a huge shortage due to previous commitments because students have already been placed within the universities. They have already started some programmes. It will be very unfair to now tell a student in second year in a private university to go and look for a certain public university because there is no money. So, in looking at the numbers, we are convinced as a Committee that we will have enough money for capitation by donating Kshs500 million to go towards alleviating the problem that has been created by the admission in the past of those students. We also agreed with the Ministry that they must now look, going forward, at a policy in terms of placing students in private universities while we have gaps in public universities. The ongoing rationalisation programmes in universities will address that problem."
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