{"id":1562662,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1562662/?format=json","text_counter":101,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Sen. Sifuna","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":13599,"legal_name":"Sifuna Edwin Watenya","slug":"sifuna-edwin-watenya"},"content":"Now Mr. Speaker, Sir, the supplementary question that I want to ask is, whether this idea of transforming these mid-level colleges like the Kenya Polytechnic into universities without sound financial and research grounding was ill-thought of and given the inability of these institutions to self-fund from internal resources. He has brought that question out very clearly that these institutions are unable to sustain themselves because of the sources of funding. Would you still, as a Government, support this policy of transforming these mid-level colleges like Kenya Polytechnic into universities?"}