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    "id": 886925,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/886925/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Bomet Central, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ronald Tonui",
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        "legal_name": "Ronald Kiprotich Tonui",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for the opportunity to also support this Motion. It is in public domain that Prof. Magoha is highly experienced right from the time he was the Vice-Chancellor of the UON where he performed. He is a performer. He is academically qualified and superior. I agree with him. The issue which needs to be addressed by the appointing authority is regional balance. To have a county with three CSs is quite awkward. We might need to redistribute those CSs so that we also have South Nyanza and Kakamega being represented. It is important to relook into that. Now that we have been informed that he believes that the only university worth existing is the University of Nairobi, I hope he will not go after our small universities such as Bomet University College. He should try to build those universities to the same level as the University of Nairobi. On the issues of infrastructure or funding schools, I believe he will try to be fair so that all schools can be considered and not just national schools where the kids of the rich are while the small day schools where the kids of the poor are are given very little funding. That will need to be reviewed. On the issue of consultation, I am happy to hear that he is very good in terms of consultation. He will need to consult with all those stakeholders in the education sector especially the trade union movement right from the Kenya Union of Post Primary Teachers (KUPPET), KNUT and Universities Academic Staff Union (UASU). If he becomes a bully and a professor with a know-it-all attitude, we will not get the best education system in this country. So, I believe he needs to consult. Given that he is a specialist in the medical sector, I wish he was appointed to serve in that sector because the health sector also requires somebody with good credentials like Prof. Magoha. But since we are not the appointing authority, we leave it to the appointing authority. I also respect what he did at KNEC."
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