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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kathiani, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Robert Mbui",
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    "content": " Thank you, Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. The idea of the Kenya Open University is very timely. Listening to what has happened and noting that Kenya has spent so much money on distant and e-learning outside, it is a shock that this was not done ages ago. Nevertheless, the importance of education cannot be gainsaid. It is good especially when it is higher education. If you look at the history of education in this country, and I will just talk about the time when I was at the university, things were very different from what is happening now. I remember at the university we used to be paid by the Government. We used to receive a “boom” of Ksh5,040 each semester. We were accommodated by the university students’ accommodation board and all students were accommodated. We were fed and we actually benefitted a lot. The Government was taking the issue of education very seriously. However, if you look at the current situation, parents have to raise money for university students to pay their fees. The cost of living in the university hostel is too high. So, what is happening is that many of them are probably living in the nearby estates. Those are the places The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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