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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Kuti",
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        "legal_name": "Mohammed Abdi Kuti",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to move the following amendment to this Motion in line with Standing Order No.52. THAT, the words “and middle level technical college” be inserted immediately after the word “university” or “universities,” respectively wherever they appear in the text of the Motion. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, while we all appreciate the importance of universities, middle level technical colleges are actually the reason our progress towards industrialization is slowed. It is also for the same reason that most of the roads constructed by our local engineers, due to lack of high quality clerks of works or middle level technicians that they break apart to the extent that we invite these Chinese to build our roads. It is for the same reason that we are not making our own vehicles or making our own computers. Industrialization is lagging behind because the critical mass of personnel with technical know-how other than at the university level are lacking in this country. To the detriment of what I have just said, the middle level universities are now being swallowed because they are being converted to universities. Even in the regions that have been endowed, most of those technical colleges are now universities. I would like to move so that the whole amendment reads as follows:- THAT aware that during the first years after Independence the best public schools were established in certain regions of Kenya to the exclusion of other regions resulting in such regions having undue advantage in producing educated manpower; appreciating that the introduction of the devolved system of government in the Constitution of Kenya 2010 was aimed at achieving equalization of development and other opportunities including education across the country, noting that the Government has lately embarked on establishing more public universities and middle level technical colleges in the country; concerned that the majority of public universities and middle level colleges are currently concentrated in a few regions of the country to the exclusion of the rest of the The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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