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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ababu",
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        "legal_name": "Ababu Tawfiq Pius Namwamba",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, I support this Petition. I want to invite the Departmental Committee on Education, Science and Technology to focus on three issues as they look into this serious matter. Closure of universities has now become so casual that it is like common practice. I would encourage the Committee to look at these three factors. Number one is the quality of the management that we have in our universities. That is because at the slightest wave of crisis, we see the management of most of those universities rushing to close the universities, which should be a measure of last resort. It also calls to question the capacity of the administrators of those universities to deal with a crisis. The management of young people is not easy. We must have men and women in our universities with the capacity and experience to manage people and crises and not to resort to closure of universities and expulsion of students. The example of what we saw at the University of Nairobi, where over 160 students have been suspended from the university, is bad. That is so punitive. It is actually an indictment on the management capacity of those universities. Number two is the character of the students themselves. Obviously, we have a serious problem with discipline. If every time there is a problem students resort to violence, then it means there is a very serious problem with the character of the young people that are ending up at our universities today. We may, as a House, want to consider the option of the National Youth Service (NYS) pre-university model where students went through a programme to stiffen them a little bit and prepare them for life in college. The question of discipline is a matter that we cannot ignore in this case. 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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