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    "id": 886932,
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    "speaker_name": "Alego-Usonga, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Samuel Atandi",
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        "legal_name": "Samuel Onunga Atandi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Everybody here appears to be supporting the nomination of Prof. Magoha and talking positively about his leadership credentials. However, while I support and encourage the House to adopt this Motion, I would like to caution this House, having followed his vetting process on television. He appears like a dictator. The education sector is very complex. There are very many issues. There are very many institutions, including civil society organisations and trade unions. If Prof. Magoha does not apply the consultative approach in the management of the education sector, I fear that we might have a crisis. So, I want to urge him to ensure that he adopts a more consultative approach and engage the stakeholders because education is very important. We do not want to see a situation where in future there is a crisis such that people cannot talk. I would also like to observe that there are very many good things that Prof. Magoha did in the area of leadership. During his stint at the UON, he brought order. He is one of the leaders we consider bold. At one point in time, he told us that he was bold because he touches balls of prominent people in Kenya because of his job as a urologist. That character of being a bold leader will be very important in this sector as well. He should not be intimidated and bossed around by trade union leaders. We have trade unionists today who are also Members of Parliament. If you talk to former ministers, they will tell you that the trade unionists tried to boss them around. I know this will not happen because of his bold nature and the way he acts. The other issue I would like to repeat is that the introduction of Module II Degree Programmes in public universities in Kenya can squarely be accredited to Prof. Magoha. Because of that many universities are independent financially today and are able to run their affairs very well. We want to see a financially independent education sector, both at the primary level, high school level and university level. This will be good for Kenya. Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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