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    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/236294/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "I think we need to expand the portfolio and profile of the HELB. Equally, this Board should be decentralised! If we have universities in Nyanza Province, like Maseno University, Moi University and Egerton University, the HELB does not need to be administered centrally from Nairobi, so that everybody who wants a loans has to come to Nairobi to talk about it. We need to have a branch of this Board in almost every province, so that when students, or parents want to talk about loans, they have a local office to go to. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I also want to mention something about the remuneration of university professors and other lecturers. I think the way forward, and this has been done in other universities, is to give every university the authority, and autonomy to hire each and every lecturer and professor on negotiated terms between the individual and the university. If you are good, you can negotiate your salary at a rate you deserve. Then, we will not have this issue of bringing trade unionism into a scenario where intellectualism is supposed to be the key. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, you can understand if railway workers were in a union. However, intellectuals, professors and lectures, should each be given an opportunity to negotiate their terms of employment according to their brain, ability and capacity. This is what happens in other universities. if you go to the University of London, you will find that every professor has his or her own terms of employment with the university. If you are a research fellow, reader or whatever, you get your own terms. This will help reduce the problems we are having now. Lastly, I want to give notice to the Minister that at the committee stage, I will move an November 7, 2006 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 3445 amendment to change the name of this university from Western University of Science and Technology to Masinde Muliro University. Thank you."
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