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    "id": 1266580,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "be considered after public participation by the Departmental Committee on Education and Research, as Hon. (Dr) Nyikal was articulating. We must be on guard and ensure that the Universities Regulations of 2023 will only serve to enhance, realise and actualise the implementation of the Open University of Kenya and not any other sinister business. His Excellency the President is very keen on re-modelling how we finance our university education. I alert the Committee on Delegated Legislation to ensure that they do not in any way tinker with the policy that the President has already espoused on funding of university education through regulations. Any regulations that come to this House on funding of universities in this country should be in line with what the President has already launched and espoused as a policy for university funding so that we guard ourselves and our country from tampering with Government policy and Acts of Parliament using subsidiary legislation. I encourage the Committee to ensure that they go through the 102 clauses and report back to the House through a report that should be approved. I repeat and I hope the Chair is listening. They should bring a report for approval or disapproval before this House, because it will touch on funding of our public universities. I encourage the young people of this country that when we will have the Open University of Kenya ready and running at Konza Technopolis to utilise the ICT hubs. Allow me to announce to the young people of Kikuyu Constituency that, as I speak, Nachu Technical Vocational College has access to internet. The cabling is ongoing this afternoon and by next week that particular institution will be ready so that by the time we launch the Open University of Kenya, the children of Kikuyu will not have to travel long distances to access universities education. They will not need to pay for hostels, but will be able to learn from their backyards in Kikuyu from every village as we promised them with His Excellency the President when we went there to campaign. The Open University of Kenya serves our Bottom-up Economic Transformation Agenda as we sold to the people of Kenya. I encourage the Departmental Committee on Education and Research to ensure we actualise the Kenya Open University so that we also mainstream digital skills and capacity building in the priority areas of the bottom-up economic agenda along the nine value chains that we have listed in our manifesto and which will be funded through our budget appropriations this year. With those many remarks, I support."
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