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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I would have been happy to know the method of checking how this would be done so that we determine, out of the 22 public universities that Sen. Elachi mentioned about, which of the 47 counties do not have universities so that we have a starting point. The proposal to have the Senate under Clause 26(4) vetting is important. The liaison proposed by Sen. Mohamud is equally important. We were discussing with Sen. Ong’era here and wondering how to set up 47 universities. If you do that, what criteria do you use? Do you set up universities randomly in all the 47 counties and distinguish those that will offer education, law or agriculture? What criteria will we use? Shall we just have 47 tribal universities for Kisiis, Kambas, Luhyas, Maasais and so on? It is important to look into that. Therefore, the liaison that is proposed in counties is important. We were thinking about that aloud here. The idea should be that we should have Maasais going to Makueni to study ICT in a university at Konza Techno City. We should then have a university in Kisii for something else, for example, agribusiness and a different faculty in Mombasa. Another university in Nandi should offer a different faculty so that we do not convert the 47 universities into 47 conclaves of tribalism. That is not the idea behind the proposal to have universities in all counties. Madam Temporary Speaker, we should be inquiring because it was contemplated that the commission under Clause 26 is the one supposed to come up with the budget for setting up universities. I am very glad that Sen. Mohamud came up with this Bill. In the next budget, we want to see whether or not the CUE under this Bill will come up with a budget for setting up of universities. Maybe, we should ask for a report now. The Committee on Education should make a note about Clause 26 of this legislation and find out what the CUE has done concerning the setting up of universities in counties where there have been no universities since 2013. The Committee should also know the money that has been allocated from 2013 up to 2015 regarding the setting up the universities. If the budget is not there and has not been put up, the Committee should know the reason so that it informs the Senate on the methodology being used. The Committee ought to inquire on how universities will be set up and the criteria that will be used. This is important so that by the time we will be passing this Bill – where it is proposed that there will be a liaison with county governments – we will have an established criterion of how universities in areas that the law has recognised to be marginalised since Independence are then considered. The Committee should know which universities out of the marginalised ones will be given priority in the same way we did regarding Article 204 which is about an Equalisation Fund so that we activate some of the issues that Sen. Mohamud has proposed in this Bill. Madam Temporary Speaker, regarding the amendment to Clause 26(4) – in my own view in terms of the reports to the Senate and the National Assembly –should have been a little rewarded. I say so, because although the functions of education, strictly speaking, are under Schedule Four for the national Government, Clause 26 is where 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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