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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Khamasi",
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        "legal_name": "Daniel Lyula Khamasi",
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    "content": "Yes, grabbed. Thank you, Mr. Sungu. The property appears in the list of properties that were grabbed. It is, indeed, a very huge ground. It is also Government land which should be passed on to WUST and it will make good use of it.. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to talk about the courses that are offered at WUST. As the Vice-President and Minister for Home Affairs said, Disaster Management is one of the unique courses being offered at WUST. You and I know how unprepared we are when a calamity strikes. We normally cry out to foreign countries to come and assist us because we do not have the technical know how. We really do not have people who have studied courses of this kind. Therefore, this is a right course that the University is offering and should be encouraged to expand it so that it can produce more people who can handle conflict resolution. The University was established close to Kakamega Forest. This is the only tropical rain forest that still exists in this country. However, it is being decimated day and night. In the next five or ten years, that forest will not be there. When you move around that forest, you will get students studying Medicine in foreign universities taking plants from that forest. They use the plants in their countries to produce good medicine which they sell to us at very high prices. I think Forestry is a course that should be embarked on very seriously in this university. Probably, it will be even better for the Government to take a very bold step and make sure that it actually offers this forest to WUST once this course has been established. That way, we shall be able to conserve Kakamega Forest. At the rate at which it is being destroyed, if nothing is done, we shall have the forest completely destroyed in the next few years. In a certain clause in this Bill, the intake of students is mentioned. Of course, there should be no discrimination in the admission of students. I believe that students should come from all walks of life. However, I would rather that we look at Kenyans, first and foremost, so that once they have been admitted and are satisfied, then we can look at other people who come in search of education. If that cannot be the case, we would rather have other people joining this university and paying just as much as our students who go to Uganda, Tanzania or India pay. It is important that we give Kenyans the first chance when seeking admission into this university. The creation of WUST is necessary. This Bill has been on the waiting list for too long. Now that it is here, I want to ask my colleagues to hasten its passage so that in the next few days it goes to the Committee of the Whole House and be made law. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, with those few remarks, I beg to support."
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