{"id":686489,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/686489/?format=json","text_counter":235,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Shimbwa","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":1345,"legal_name":"Omar Mwinyi Shimbwa","slug":"omar-mwinyi-shimbwa"},"content":"Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I believe this Bill will go a long way in solving this issue. We need to have fair distribution of funding so that programmes can be fulfilled and universities can play the roles they have been assigned to. We know of universities which are overfunded and cannot even absorb those funds. We have others which are given very limited funds and cannot even undertake a quarter of their programmes, which is unfair. We are looking at a situation whereby we have students who are prepared for the changing environment that we live in today. Long ago, we were looking at university graduates as people who could fit into the society and get white collar jobs that were there. Currently, the country is churning out around 800,000 graduates every year, both from Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE), KCSE as well as other colleges, and we do not have employment opportunities for them. The same has not been improved so that those university students can play another role such as entrepreneurship. We need to have courses which are going to enable our students to fit in today’s world of unemployment. You will not be surprised to find an engineer telling you: “I want any job. Kindly assist me to get any job.” This means there is something wrong in our education system. I would like to contribute on the moral side of our students. There is moral decadence in our universities. No wonder Koinange Street is very popular with our university students who are engaging in immoral activities. It is not just Koinange Street but right in the universities. When you go there on a Friday, you will be surprised and shocked. You may decide to take your child"}