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    "id": 314719,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Baiya",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 8,
        "legal_name": "Peter Njoroge Baiya",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I beg to move:- THAT clause 5 be amended by- (a) deleting paragraph (a) and substituting therefor the following- “(a) establish and manage a centre for research and training in legal education for the furtherance of the objects of the School;” (b) deleting paragraph (b) and substituting therefor the following- “(b) charge reasonable fees and other charges for services rendered and liaise with appropriate bodies to extend loans and other assistance to enable and assist needy students meet their fees obligations. The reasons for this amendment are two. One, the School proposes to set up and manage campuses or centres for research and training. We feel this is a threat to duplicate many institutions across the country purporting to offer legal education, the way we have seen university campuses mushrooming all over the country. This is being driven principally by commercial reasons in complete disregard of standards. We should not allow the school of law to go this direction. Let us have one centralized standard campus and one research centre. That is what we are proposing. Secondly, we are proposing to be allowed to prescribe fees and other charges. The amendment seeks to impose that such charges be reasonable. We are proposing that they be required to liaise with appropriate bodies with a view to extend loans and other assistances to enable needy students to meet their fees obligation. The reason we are doing this is to publicly address the current problem. The school of law is right now charging the fees of about Kshs190,000. Some university students from public universities who have actually been picked from all the way down in the system cannot access the school of law because they cannot afford the school fees."
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