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"content": "If you look at the capitation nationally, it is roughly Kshs8 billion every year that would afford and make sure that every student, devoid of political connections, colour, religion, whether they know someone, and devoid of being asked to kneel down before an MP or a governor, is able to access education. They can go to school for free without having to queue outside an MP’s office or without having to beg a governor."
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"content": "I call upon these leaders because sometimes I see colleague leaders going round saying that so-and-so did not vote for them, therefore they cannot talk about issuing bursaries to them and that they will issue bursaries to areas where they are popular or they got more votes. It is wrong to play with the lives and the future of our young people because of politics. We need to sanitise our politics. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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"content": "Sen. Thang’wa, I thank you because this conversation starts from here. Today, we are having a Motion. Hopefully, this Motion will beget a legal framework in form of a Bill. Hopefully that Bill will become law and an Act of Parliament. That Act of Parliament will ultimately need to be implemented. The implementation is speaking towards making sure that we have free universal education for our students. I thank Sen. Thang’wa for seeing us through that journey."
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"content": "Right now as we debate, some of us might be misquoted. They will say that I am back at it again and that I am pushing for scrapping of bursaries. That is not true because I understand we receive funds from the Exchequer as sharable revenue. It is the people of Kwale, Bomet, Nandi and other areas, through public participation, that have set aside these funds to be used on bursary programmes."
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"content": "There is an interesting petition. Since I am a lawyer, I do not wish to go into details of that matter. That is Petition No.E012 of 2024. The petitioner is Laban Omusundi. Madam Temporary Speaker, you know him because we have interacted with him many times in the Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights. That is a petition against the State Law Office, the Controller of Budget (CoB) and many others. It is shocking that our governors have not seen the need to join in this petition. Even as they are saying that Senators are fighting them on bursaries, I am shocked that they were not interested in participating in that particular petition in Nakuru, so that they ventilate and put their arguments towards justifying why we need that scholarship programme as it is for now."
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"content": "I also want to thank the National Assembly, through a committee led by Hon. Junet Mohamed. They formed an ad hoc committee of 17 Members to try and see whether they can streamline and consolidate education funding into one centralize unitary scheme known as the National Basic Education Fund, so that we work towards attaining steps of making sure that every Kenyan has a right to education as provided in Articles43, 53 and 55."
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"content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, with those many remarks, since I know this is a topical Motion and all of my colleagues would wish to air their views on, let it go on record that I am not opposed to bursaries as they are, but I am happy to participate in a conversation that will in future guarantee free education to our children not only in Kwale but Kenya in general."
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"content": "I thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. Sen. Thang’wa, many congratulations on this Motion."
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"content": " Proceed, Sen. Gloria."
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"content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, before I give my submissions, I want to start by asking myself; what does the word “bursary” mean? They will give you an explanation there but bursary is a monetary award. If you check further the exact meaning of “award”, it is a token of recognition or a prize."
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