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    "id": 1183425,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1183425/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kilgoris, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Julius Sunkuli",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Speaker, I also want to join my colleagues on this matter of universities. Some of us went to university when university education was fully funded by the Government. In fact, we used to receive an amount of money called “boom” and we really enjoyed it. I remember buying my first radio system using boom money. The library was fully funded and everything was going on well. I am talking about the University of Nairobi. Subsequently, the Government started other universities. Kenyatta University was a university college then, but subsequently elevated to be the second university in Kenya. Then came another entrant, Moi University. The universities then proliferated. There came the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) and many others. After some time, you could ask yourself a number of questions. First of all, universities need professors to lecture students. Those who belong to my generation know that we were taught by professors at the universities. Today, I ask myself where the professors going to lecture university students are coming from. We have so many universities that I do not know whether it is sustainable. A policy needs to be put in place so that we can revert to quality. There are no two ways about it. The Government must fund public universities. Otherwise, they will have to go through some unorthodox systems of enrolling students the way they did in the Module II programs and get people who can pay rather than people who have passed examinations. I would ask the Ministry of Education to find every means possible to address this issue. One of the ways of stopping this very expensive education that we have is to stop the proliferation of branches. Sometime I find Mount Kenya University (MKU) in Kisii and Kisii University in Mombasa. I mean, these are the things which are making our education very expensive. We should revert to a situation where a real university with proper professors is in place and the Government pays for the students. I think this will be closer to the truth. The only way of doing this is to stand up, as Members of Parliament, and say we have to save our universities."
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