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    "speaker_name": "Hon. F.K. Wanyonyi",
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        "legal_name": "Ferdinard Kevin Wanyonyi",
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    "content": "an option to be relevant. We have so many of those cases. One of the earlier speakers talked about students coming out of the universities and yet, their entry into university is questionable when you look at it. This Amendment Bill will help in terms of getting people who are qualified. If it is Grade A, let it be that. In the past, we had cases like Egerton University specialising in agriculture and livestock husbandry. Today, you will find the same university has all the courses that one will think of in the world. We should go back and trace what we used to do. For example, I know Dar-es-Salaam was specifically for law. Anybody who came from the University of Dar-es- Salaam as a lawyer was good. I know some of them in this country and they are super lawyers. Kenyatta University was taking education very well. Now, you will find students in that university are doing all sorts of courses. I do not want to mention names. You know them. I was here the other day when students who did engineering - and I do not know what engineering it was - could not be recognised. An institution in this country has been giving fake certificates. The Commission for University Education said it cannot recognise that and yet, a poor student has spent so much time in that university. Something should be done. I think those amendments to 17 clauses will cure some of those abnormalities in our education system. As I conclude, we have had very good brains as vice-chancellors. We would want to move away from appointing vice-chancellors. Let them competitively seek that position so that we get people who have what it takes to lead a university, other than having people just because they come from certain ethnic groups – be it Luhya, Luo, Kikuyu or whichever. God knows this country. When you go to those universities, you will find the establishments are like what somebody was talking about – village universities. The whole lot of the staff come from the area the vice-chancellor comes from. We are not doing something good for our country. A university vice-chancellor should be somebody from anywhere. Hon. (Dr.) Ottichilo was saying a university is actually “universal”. Let us get people from anywhere. That is even if it means getting somebody from Ghana or South Africa (SA) to lead the particular university. Lastly, when I went to the university which is a good one in this country, I had to meet the career guidance experts. They asked me what my aspirations and interests were. Those days, students just went and did things as they wished. One may have got a Grade A or B+ (Plus) and they say they are going to do commerce without taking their aspirations and interests into consideration. We should have a student who is going to be a career professional. If he is going to study medicine like my brother Dr. Kibunguchy whom I respect, it should be so. He was told to do it. When he looked at his qualifications, he discovered he could study medicine. Of course, with that interest and, because he had wanted to do it, that is something very important. Therefore, we are asking that before universities take students, they should sit with them to know their aspirations, interests and backgrounds, and see whether they can fit into what is required. If one wants to do law or commercial subjects, he will be guided so that he takes the right course for his future advancements. With those few remarks, this Bill has come at the right time for us to move our country forward. I support."
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