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    "id": 469825,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/469825/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Muriuki",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Stephen Muriuki Ngare",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you for giving me the opportunity to support that amendment. I do support the main Motion of establishing a university in every county. However, if you see the trend in our country in the last five or ten years, there has been a move, I do not know whether it is by the Government or all of us, to actually kill the technical colleges. When you look at what used to be Kenya Polytechnic, it is now a university. What used to be called Mombasa Polytechnic is gone. We had colleges of science and technology in Murang’a, Kiambu, Western and so on, but they are now gone. When you look at it, the net effect of killing these middle level technical colleges is that the professionals, for example, in engineering, it is becoming easier to get a graduate in engineering than to get a holder of a diploma or a higher national diploma. Yet these are people who do the actual work in construction and design. These people are slowly getting finished in our country. The reason we shall continue looking for technicians from China is because we seem to have missed the point. Everyone is now going for a degree, but when you go to other countries like in the United Kingdom which we are supposed to copy from, they still value their diplomas and higher national diplomas. They still have programmes of people who did their diplomas moving to the higher national diploma and then degrees after years of technical experience in the industry. What we are doing in our country is that we are killing the support technology which is supposed to work hand in hand with the so called professionals at the top. If you look at the quality of degrees that we have now, I only have an ordinary degree that is Bachelor of Science (BSc). But when I talk to people who did BSc and went ahead to MBA and we talk about engineering in terms of improving our production, with all due respect to everybody concerned, very often you will find that you are not getting the difference. That person who did MBA---"
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