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    "id": 385743,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. In replying, I want to thank all the hon. Senators who found time to contribute to this important Motion. It is with a lot of pleasure that all hon. Senators who contributed, supported the Motion. Apparently, Sen. Karaba was the only hon. Senator who spoke against the Motion. Having listened to other hon. Senators, I hope he has changed his mind. I hope is now supporting us. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the only thing I would like to react to was raised by Sen. Mutahi Kagwe. I believe the Deputy Speaker, Sen. Kembi-Gitura, mentioned this issue. This is, when a university, for argument’s sake, is built in Meru County, for example, it is not necessarily students from Meru County who attend the university. So, this does not matter anyway. This may be true. But the Motion is aware that it is this same lie that has prevailed for over 50 years when students used to be told: “Much as you come from Luoland and you are enrolled in a school in Central Province, you have not been stopped from going to Central Province, so it is all well when the national school is in Central Province.” We want to defeat this lie because it has come to pass, with evidence today, that these regions that had the best institutions have got the best manpower in the country. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the boy who topped last year’s Kenya Certificate of Secondary School Education (KCSE) national examination was from Turkana County. So, to assume, as Sen. Karaba assumed yesterday, that we have to, first of all, develop primary and secondary schools in certain regions before we establish universities, is assuming that we do not have raw talent. The raw talent is there, only that it is not exposed to facilities. Mr. Speaker, Sir, finally---"
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