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    "id": 697667,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I welcome the students and lecturers from the University of Eldoret. There is a very important phenomenon that is going on in the university and that is a very worrying trend. As a lecturer, one of the things we used to struggle with and Sen. (Dr.) Zani will agree with me, is students who do not want to learn. They are in the university to pass exams and do not want to acquire knowledge by themselves. These are students who, when they are told to do research, go through shortcuts. I know people out there with so called Ph.D but honesty cannot read one page of their thesis because someone else was doing the thesis for them. It is important that we restore the credibility of our universities; that it becomes a place of knowledge and not a place of getting papers. Too many people have papers but have no knowledge; too many people have knowledge but have no wisdom. The university should be a place of wisdom, integration, getting universal values and a place that many students will interact across political and ethnic divide. I speak as a former student leader and a former lecturer at the university. The university students and The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate"
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