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    "content": "decide to act like some drunk mobs; go around destroying property in the name of fighting second generation brews. We must now stop this “second generation” thinking so that we ensure that once due process has been followed, Kenyans can sleep safely. knowing that their business or education will be protected. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I support this amendment. However, at the Committee stage, I will propose further amendments. If you involve the county governments in the establishment of these universities, it would only be fair to create a provision in the council which is the highest decision making organ in any university, for the governor or his representative to get a seat in the council. We need to look at Section 36 of the Universities Act and ask ourselves whether we should allow the governor of the county in which the university is headquartered to be a member of the council. For example, the Governor for Nairobi County would then have a seat in the council of the five public universities that are in Nairobi. We need to strike a balance and see how that goes. Right now, the appointees to the council are direct from the national Government. There is absolutely no role that the county government plays. As I said, we need to ensure that even employment and admission needs to be balanced. We do not want to create small cartels where we say that only people from the local communities can be employed in these universities. Finally, we must also look at the allocation that the Government gives to Higher Education Loans Board (HELB). For example, if you create 23 additional universities countrywide, the assumption is that we will also increase the number of students who will join public universities. It is a sad thing that the HELB that serves hundreds of thousands of students was allocated Kshs4.9 billion in the last financial year while the National Youth Service (NYS) which serves 30,000 Kenyans was allocated Kshs25 billion. We must start to think about our priorities. Agriculture which is the largest employer in this country and accounts for 27 per cent of our GDP got just Kshs46 billion. We need to put our money in the right place if we want this country to go in the right direction. With those remarks, I beg to support."
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