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    "content": "pride. You are proud to have a university and to belong to a university. So, it is also something useful when you are devolving Government for people to see for themselves that education is also being brought to our areas. We will also use it for national cohesion. I do not take it that universities will only admit people from their counties. It should be countrywide. When we want to look at the quality--- Even if you have 47 universities, they can all specialize in different lines. You do not have all of us doing agriculture or law. Others can do whatever is suitable in a particular area. I want to emphasise that, perhaps, the ones which are ready we can give them their charters now, and it will be a wonderful thing for them to go for Christmas as we work towards the next set of universities. We should look at how much the Government should put in. We must also encourage the private sector to invest in universities and have foundations which can set up universities. Through this, we can manage the thousands and thousands of our children who go to India and the United States of America simply because universities are not available in Kenya. The one thing that I want to conclude with is in respect to the appointment of chancellors. I am not sure whether we necessarily need to have people apply to become chancellors of universities. This should be something open. We can encourage respected senior citizens or people with credibility to apply to become chancellors. I know that many people who would be suitable to be chancellors might find it very difficult to apply because it is not like they want a job. This should be a service to this nation. Some of retired leaders might be very useful as chancellors. Some people might have useful experience because they have held Ministerial positions and have ties across the world. They would be very useful, but I wonder whether they would really want to apply to become chancellors. Finally, I would like to commend the Minister and urge that we all support this Bill."
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