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    "id": 1123754,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1123754/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherargei",
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "Even as the Ministry of Education calls for a consensus on how we can ensure that our universities are not debt ridden, they should also be innovative on how they can generate their own income in one way or another. They should even use other means to ensure self-reliance because you have seen how most lecturers and workers within the university are going on strike. Egerton University is on strike. We have seen so many notices of strike by the institutions of higher learning. Madam Deputy Speaker, I really want to plead that the Ministry of Education apart from addressing this issue of arbitrary fees increment to our students, they must also relook at how universities can be sustainable. I know the issue of Privately Sponsored Students Programme (PSSP) was restructured. This affected the income that used to come to universities. This is foul play and we need to be careful. As I conclude, when the private universities were allowed to take the students under the regular programme so that they can get Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) loans, billions of shillings go to private universities. It looks like there is a collusion between the Ministry of Education and the Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service (KUCCPS). They are in an unholy alliance or a satanic move by ensuring that priority is given to private universities as opposed to public universities. Madam Deputy Speaker, when that money is being given to universities, most of it goes to the private universities yet we have our very good public universities. You are a product of a public university. Sen. (Dr.) Langat is a product of public university. All of us are products of public universities. Why should the government not be careful so that public universities select their students first, then the private universities come second? However, if you say anybody can take it, we know private universities will take advantage. When that issue comes up, we must address issues of placement of students across the country. I thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker."
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