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    "id": 591202,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/591202/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Aden",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 15,
        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Thank you for the opportunity to speak to this very important Motion, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I must say that the incident at Maseno University and the loss of lives of very young, productive and what we can call the crop for the future of our nation due to what I can literally call as m heshimiwa has put it, “a very careless management of the situation which unfolded.” Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the universities must wake up to the reality that it is not in the old days where the administration would dictate how the students go about the management of their affairs. Even in secondary schools these days, what we used to call class prefects and headboys are now subjected to what is called student leadership elections, including in the lower levels of learning. For that reason for Maseno University and the manner in which this particular incident is being handled is very wrong. We seek very serious answers to the questions raised by the hon. Member. How much is the negligence of the administration of that University as being one of the causes of this thing? Could this incident have been averted and those lives saved? Parents in Kenya pay a lot of hard-earned money to send their children to university. It is very discouraging to see that those universities are closed and even some parents lose the lives of their children. This is very sad and it is a situation that, indeed, has prompted us to speak on this matter today. It is not only Maseno University that has serious issues in terms of management and administration. This should be a learning point, so that those other hotbeds of potential future violence coming out, can be averted in good time."
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