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"content": "Then we have the so called consideration for the senior counsel. I know very well that this Bill was done with the consent of most senior counsel members, including my very good friend the Attorney-General (AG). I think he was looking for an opportunity for his friends. They are only 21 people but the laws are being made for 40 million Kenyans. We do not want things that people tailor-make for their interests, or the interests of their friends. Kenyans must refuse to return Kenya to the past, or allow Kenya to belong to a few people. When people are appointed to positions of responsibility they want to run things the way they did in the past; they tailor-make them for the benefit of their friends and themselves. This is something of the past that we must do everything to reject. I have also looked at the aspect of the university accreditation. We need time. This should have been taken to the Departmental Committee on Education, Research and Technology. Just as my colleague, Hon. Millie Odhiambo has said a few minutes ago, there was a time when there was an exodus of Kenyans to India. She was just afraid of mentioning India. Long time ago, India was a place that people coveted during Mahatma Gandhi’s era. Then there was serious education. The lawyers who went there came back and did Kenya proud. Much later in the 1970s and 1980s, commercial colleges sprouted in India where people went and so long as their The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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