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    "id": 1143210,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1143210/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kisumu West, FORD-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Olago Aluoch",
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        "legal_name": "John Olago Aluoch",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. An in-depth examination of this Petition by the Committee will disclose that it raises fundamental and pertinent issues that go beyond amending the law to include alumni in the composition of the senates and councils. I disagree with Hon. Sossion. The problem of universities is not underfunding but management. If the alumni can input management skills in our universities, the better. Hon. Gogo has just mentioned that Egerton University had students who took eight years for courses that take five and six years. It is worse at the Moi University School of Medicine where medical students on a six-year course are taking more than eight-and-a-half years in that university. These students from Moi University School of Medicine – some of them come from poor families – will they be able to compete with students from the University of Nairobi? Time has come for this House to take a hint from what this Kenyan has said in the Petition on issues to do with management. That way, issues like nepotism will be removed from the universities. If this Petition is dealt with, the way I am thinking it should be, by the Departmental Committee on Education and Research, then action should be taken to amend the law to include alumni. It will reduce both cases of mismanagement of finances and nepotism in our universities. Thank you."
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