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    "id": 1123751,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1123751/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherargei",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "Madam Deputy Speaker, I did not know Sen. Olekina can be this humble. I rise to support this Statement by Sen. (Dr.) Lang’at. The arbitrary increase of fees in the universities is a cause of alarm. Madam Deputy Speaker, you were a principal of a constituent college and a lecturer in university. I am sure you appreciate the fact that most parents are struggling with these hard economic times. If there is fee increment, it will always affect the accessibility to education. The cardinal rule is the right of every Kenyan to access higher education, which should always be affordable and accessible. This Senate passed a Bill that every county should have a university across the nation. It was the intention of this House to ensure that everybody within Kenya can access higher learning. The increment on fees has affected many people. Some of the students in the higher learning institutions also hustle through here and there. They do other jobs; others are professionals or civil servants who despite heavy workload want to advance their education. Many people have benefited through such structures. The increment in fees will affect all of us. It will affect parents and many Kenyans who either work in the private or public sectors who in the evening after five spare a few coins to access higher education. The key issue here is that most of the"
}