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    "id": 140596,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/140596/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Kosgei",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Higher Education, Science and Technology",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13,
        "legal_name": "Lucas Kipkosgei Chepkitony",
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    "content": "In response to the education attaches issue which has been raised here twice and spoken to at length, I want to be fair and point out to the House that if there is any remiss there, it does not rest within the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology. We have tried to do our work. In the last financial year, we had funds and posted education attaches. But for those of you who know how this operates, a Ministry posts and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs takes action according to what the relevant Ministry requests. In our case, for some unexplained reason, we faced enormous stone walling from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. I heard hon. Affey say the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology should be stronger. We went everywhere and there is enough communication on that effort. We will be posting more because it is, indeed, very difficult for us, as a Ministry, to manage the affairs of the students outside this country without using the officers whom we can ourselves detail and who are accountable to that Ministry. I do not say this out of ignorance because as some of you would know, I was a diplomat myself and served in areas where I had education attaches. I could not duplicate their work. They had to do it under the Ambassador and report to their relevant Ministries. Furthermore, as an administrator, I had run that Ministry for ten years. We allowed the relevant Ministries to post their attaches with funding given to them by the relevant Ministry of Finance. It is, therefore, strange to me that this is even an issue."
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