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    "id": 262974,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/262974/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Mwiria",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Higher Education, Science and Technology",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 190,
        "legal_name": "Valerian Kilemi Mwiria",
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    "content": "It is also the case that some Kenyans are able to go abroad through different programmes. We should encourage that because they bring diversity and complement whatever new ideas we have in our institutions. There is increased funding to constituent colleges; it is an average of Kshs400 million to Kshs500 million every year. This is affirmative action where we target the most disadvantaged, especially women and students from remote parts of Kenya. Our development partners are also helping us in terms of developing infrastructure to accommodate more students, and there is a deliberate effort again to ask universities to complete stalled projects. You go to Moi University and Egerton University and you find that a lot of projects have not been completed. The Government has subsidies for completing those stalled projects. We are also saying that we should take advantage of the land that is available. There is no reason why Moi University cannot have a capacity of 60,000 students like the University of New York because land is there. So, provision infrastructure, getting universities themselves to act, and asking to development partners to support expansion will serve us well."
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