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    "content": "would not have enjoyed the access that we have today to the kinds of opportunity and capacity to challenge or be competitive at a national and other levels that are available. We must, therefore, promote equality in our counties by ensuring that we educate those areas that we have left behind. Kenya has a fairly high illiteracy and semi illiteracy rate. Semi-illiterate is something we need to deal with. This will spur the kind of educational development that is necessary to ensure that our country deal with the goal of education. When we got independence, we said we want to deal with poverty, disease and ignorance. We have hardly dealt with any of those issues in a substantive way. Devolution was supposed to do that. That is why I always articulate the notion of social justice. Social justice cuts across. It means you repair what you might have erred historically by giving those who have less opportunity more opportunity. We need to make those who are worse off better off before those who are better off become well off so that this country can prepare itself for take-off. We cannot build our units if our economies have disparities, we must make our units of devolution competitive. When we have the intelligentsia, we will build those economies and collect more revenue and become competitive units. There are units that are already economic hubs like Mombasa, Nairobi, Kisumu and Nyeri and they collect revenue. If you look at other counties, it means that we need to invest a lot more so that these units can become competitive economically, and what better way is there other than to use the concepts of university. Oxford became a village and, later on, a city on the basis of a University. I, therefore, hope that when we bring a university, we will bring the"
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