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    "id": 453277,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Muhia",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Wanjiku Muhia",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker for giving me this opportunity to congratulate my colleagues and mostly hon. Onyancha, for coming back to this House through the Jubilee Coalition. It is the right time, specifically for hon. Tong’i to be in this committee because the incident at the Kisii University--- I am a parent or a guardian in that University and I have been following what seems to have been hidden by the media fraternity time and again. In fact, yesterday, it was by mere luck that this incident was aired. So, as he is a Member of the Committee on Energy, Communication and information, he will be able to follow the issue to the end. I also wish to condemn yesterday’s act, particularly raping of students, in the strongest terms possible. It is a shame that universities cannot resolve their differences. This is a country of demonstrations; if students demonstrate peacefully because of a mere Kshs10,000 that was asked from them as attachment fees, I do not see why the university management should go ahead and hire police officers, who then use excessive force. Even if there are 10,000 students and each of them held a stone, that does not warrant the force that we saw the police officers using. It is also amazing that the management could hire a group called Sungu Sungu - I do not know what that means in Kisii - to assist it to restore peace. It is a shame and if time allows tomorrow, I will be glad to seek a Statement from the Committee on Education, Research and Technology. We realize that university students today are the most frustrated in Kenya. Time and again, primary and secondary school parents complain and issues are resolved, but our students in universities are left to demonstrate; the police go and use force on them and, finally, they become very frustrated."
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