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    "id": 1499668,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang’",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for the opportunity. Just like the Senate Majority Leader, I am an alumnus of Moi University, during its days of glory, when it was the second university, just before Kenyatta University was established. Mr. Speaker, Sir, these are student leaders and I would like to encourage them. I was also a student leader. I was the Secretary-General of the Moi University Students' Organization. I encourage the leaders that they need to build a profile that looks at Kenya as a nation. We were with the Senate Majority Leader at Moi University recently and we addressed a kamkunji where we encouraged the students to desist from district associations such as Nandi Students’ Association and Homa Bay Students’ Association. We lack patriotism and a nationalist approach to issues in this nation. I, therefore, would like to encourage the students since I know that they have just gone through their elections. Build a nation and unity amongst the students of Kenyatta University. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we saw in the news that these students sitting in the gallery might not sit exams because their lecturers are on strike. I would like to encourage the Chairperson of the Senate Standing Committee on Education, my Vice-Captain in Athletics. I know he is able and no longer fearful. You can no longer sell fear to him. Please call the Minister in charge of Education. Sit down with him together the Vice- Chancellors (VCs) of our public universities. We have a serious crisis brewing in our education sector. Mr. Speaker, Sir, Moi University, the university we went to, is collapsing. Soon, you will have a problem with Sen. Aaron and I because if you try to establish the university we went to, you might find it does not exist. I do not know what that will mean for our academic qualifications. Similarly, at Kenyatta, Machakos and Jomo Keyatta Universities are problems. Yesterday, lecturers came to Parliament to present Petitions. For the sake of the leaders who have come from Kenyatta University, let this House, before we go on recess, find a day and do an Adjournment Motion, so that we can discuss the crisis in the education sector, not confined to the universities, but even in primary and secondary schools. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we must press the Government. We must come here in the same numbers that we came in on the impeachment day to press the Government to prioritise the most important social sector, which is education. I would like to assure the students from KU that this House is up to the task. The Chairperson of the Senate Standing Committee on Education is also up to the task. Chairman Joe Nyutu, when you call the VCs, if you need some firepower, you can call some of us, like Sen. Sifuna and the others, so that we can put the VCs online for the sake of our boys and girls at the universities. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I welcome the delegation. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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