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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mwathi",
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        "legal_name": "Peter Mungai Mwathi",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to second this Motion. In seconding, I do not want to belabour the importance of education not just in this nation but in the whole world. At the start, I just want to remind myself that at one time when I was at the University of Nairobi, we were only 22 students in class. That was only one course and it was the only university offering that course. Having looked at the growth of the students who were aspiring to join universities countrywide, I cannot fail to support this Motion. I am persuaded that the number of students in this country has grown and there is good reason to believe so because the programmes which have been put in place by the Government have actually promoted the growth of the number of students. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. It started with the free primary education. It was a very noble idea. It allows most of our youngsters to access education. When we open that window and then move on to the idea which came with the Ministry of Finance of introducing a centre of excellence in every constituency, then we should support our students at the primary level and secondary level, but what is happening in our universities? It is actually constricting. In 1998 I want to believe that there were only two universities and 25 years later, we only had four extra universities making them six. That is well and good but what is more important is that the ones who are being admitted on regular programmes are far much fewer than those who are going on parallel programmes. Therefore, there is capacity in the university to teach, but most of it they want to take through the commercial route under parallel programmes. Why can they not pick these students and take them through the normal programmes?"
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