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    "id": 83266,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/83266/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Mwiria",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Higher Education, Science and Technology",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 190,
        "legal_name": "Valerian Kilemi Mwiria",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, both Mr. Wamalwa and Mr. Mungatana have raised the issue of why the Ministry should not intervene. I would just like to remind this House that since 2004, we allowed universities to be autonomous institutions. As a matter of fact, even chancellors of universities are not government officials any more. So, there is that autonomy. Of course, we have a supervisory role because universities also depend on the Government but that role only needs to be administered if due process has not taken place. Right now the matter is with the university council. If the university council upholds a decision that is clearly faulty then, as a Government, we will have no alternative but to intervene. On the case of dismissals, those cases have to be addressed in a better way unlike in the case of Prof. Kubasu’s. I do not think it is necessary to think about dismissing anybody at this time. In any case, university positions are advertised and it is up to the council, again, to take decisions. If the council does not take appropriate decisions, then you can count on the Ministry to take action to remind university administrators who still live in the past that this is a new Kenya."
}