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    "id": 140577,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/140577/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Affey",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 381,
        "legal_name": "Mohammed Abdi Affey",
        "slug": "mohammed-affey"
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I just want to speak about higher education, particularly the universities that continue to come up in this country. While we encourage the growth of universities, it should be uniform in this country to an extent that the Minister herself must be satisfied that every part of this country has got an opportunity to host a university. At the moment, there is too much concentration of universities in areas where those facilities already exist. I have no problem with those universities being situated where there is desire by local leadership to establish them. But the whole of North Eastern Province and northern Kenya, particularly in Turkana and other parts of Rift Valley do not have a single university where the Minister can actually go and officiate a graduation ceremony. I think it is a shame that we continue to build those institutions in a manner that can create hostility in this country. We want to provide facilities for students in the northern part of Kenya. We want a university established in Turkana. In the north-east, we already have facilities and, therefore, want a university established there, so that the people around that area can feel that their students and those from other parts of the country can enroll there. In order to establish national integration, I want the Minister to look at the spread of those universities. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, secondly, I want to address the question of education attachĂŠs. I would like to ask the Minister to be firm on this matter, because"
}