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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Nyambati",
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        "legal_name": "Walter Enock Osebe Nyambati",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for your indulgence to give me a chance to air my views on this very important Motion. I want to say here and now that investment in education of our children is paramount. We must go out of our way to ensure that we give appropriate education, especially university education to our children. I want to take this opportunity to commend Kisii University College for having expanded in the past two years and admitted more than triple the number of students it was taking. I want to encourage the Ministry to go out of its way to ensure that universities in this country are expanded so that they take enough students who can be the leaders of this country in the near future. I want this House and this country to know that the only investment we can give to our children is education so that the Ministry is given enough money to expand the opportunities in our universities so that our children are equipped with the kind of education that they require. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, if you look at countries like Japan which do not have natural resources, you will find that the only major resource they have is human resource. They have developed their resources in such a way that they have become a super power even without natural resources. We cannot do that until and unless this country and this House allocates enough money to the Ministry so that it can expand the facilities required. We cannot accuse the Ministry for not allowing our universities to admit more students when we do not allocate them the resources that they require. So, I urge this House to cognizance of the fact that for us to have quality education, we must fund it. It is the responsibility of this House to do so. It is also the responsibility of the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology to request for more money to cater for the children of this country. We must also enable our universities to carry out research because a country develops through research. Universities require funding to carry out research. This is whether we are talking about medical or technological research. We are talking about Vision 2030. The Vision 2030 must have the required man power to perform the duties in order for us to be industrialized by 2030. I urge this nation and this House to be vigilant and ensure that as a nation, we will enable any child who is qualified to go to university to get the required education. You understand that most of our children do not attain university education because they are not enabled. I support this Motion."
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