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    "id": 554438,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/554438/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Simiyu",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 141,
        "legal_name": "David Eseli Simiyu",
        "slug": "david-eseli"
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    "content": "I will mainly concentrate on the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology. We are appropriating about Kshs1.193billion to this Ministry to complete developments in 24 new university colleges and in primary and secondary schools. I do not know where the developments in the primary schools are because in the neck of the woods that I come from, there is neither infrastructural funding for primary Schools nor secondary Schools. I do not know which secondary and primary schools these are. The worst of it is the universities. In the last Budget, we appropriated money to the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology for development of universities. However, when you look at how this money was distributed, you will find that universities in the western part of Kenya were totally starved of development funds. In fact, the development funds sent to those universities are so paltry that no development has gone on. Some of those universities are much older than newer universities that have come up. Any infrastructural development there was sort of frozen. So, you will find universities like Masinde Muliro and Maseno are virtually limping; they stopped all infrastructural development. This kind of skewed distribution of national resources must stop.When we were here the other day, one of the things that was noted was, again, further skewed distribution of development funds to universities, including Egerton University. This massive investment in universities which is being channeled to one part of this country is a basis for conflict, and it has to cease forthwith. The Cabinet Secretary in charge of Education must note that we are watching him. I know we are now appointing a University Funding Board which should have been appointed long time ago. But he conveniently chose not to appoint this Board so that he can continue with his skewed distribution of national resources. We are watching him and, if he does not change, then we will move a Motion of censure against him."
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