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    "content": "that is no longer necessary. Also, it will now be open to competition. We are going to get the best of the best to lead our institutions of higher learning through an open and competitive process. Slowly, we shall be moving away from what was an autocracy to where merit will apply to those who seek any position in our country in days to come and it will matter not what tribe you come from or which region or religion you come from. It will be your papers and your qualifications through an open and competitive process. This will be a new beginning for our country and we want to thank the Minister for bringing this Bill at such a time. The only other issue that we want to urge the Minister is to look at how we can make university education affordable. It should not be out of reach for many Kenyans. We have done very well in this House. Mr. M. Kilonzo, the Minister for Education brought a Bill on basic education in implementing the Constitution. It is the new expanded Bill of Rights which ensures that every Kenyan gets basic education. We have expanded the meaning of basic education not just up to primary education where we were talking about free primary education and we thought that it was basic education, but now it includes secondary education up to Form Four and it will be available to every child born in this country so that a child’s success in this country should not so much depend on the depth of the pockets of the parent but the ability of the child. It is a great stride we are taking as a country in ensuring that education is available to all the children of Kenya for them to realize their God-given potential. We do urge that even as we now put in place policies and laws to ensure every Kenyan child gets basic education, we must now focus on how the higher education can also be made affordable and accessible by all children born in this country. That is where we are going now and that is where we need our focus. We now have a county system of government and we are looking forward to a day when this country will have a university. We know that it is possible and do-able with much more focus. With the full implementation of this Constitution, embracing the spirit and letter of the Constitution, we can make it possible to have a university in each of the 47 counties. This can be done and as we set the legal framework in place for the management of universities, let us also look at equitable distribution of these institutions to ensure that one day Turkana County or Pokot County and all the other counties have their own fully-fledged universities in days to come. I just want to thank the Minister and to fully support and second the Bill."
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