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"content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I listened to that request for a Statement very carefully. It is a Statement that has to do with an institution in the county represented by the Speaker on the Chair. The Statement has been brought by the Senator for Nandi County. The Vice Chancellor of Eldoret University, Prof. Teresia Akeng’a, is my constituent from Tongaren Constituency in Bungoma County. In the last Parliament, there was an assault against Prof. Akeng’a. At that time, those who were assaulting her were even calling her a Luo; as if being a Luo is wrong. One Senator even went, chained the gates and allowed goons to flush out Prof. Akeng’a from her office. Madam Temporary Speaker, if this is the beginning of a similar attempt, I put it on record that it is a misguided and criminal act that will bring disharmony in a sector of education where we have not been picking and choosing vice chancellors on the basis of their ethnicity. It is wrong and dangerous. I urge the distinguished Senator for Nandi County to rethink his stand on it because it is misadventure that will land him into problems for nothing. I will not sit here to watch and see Prof. Teresa Akenga, a professor of distinguished career, who has led this university from a college to a full fledge university with a charter with over 10,000 students, rubbished while we watch. Madam Temporary Speaker, it is your county and I cannot challenge you while you are in the Chair. When you leave the Chair, I will seek audience with you to hear whether the Senator for Nandi is a proxy questioner or he is asking---"
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