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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve",
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        "legal_name": "Getrude Musuruve Inimah",
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    "content": "pertains. That has to do with giving back to the communities, the society and the country in terms of research and knowledge. There is need for adequate money to be allocated to our universities for purposes of funding research. I say this from an empirical point of view because I was a lecturer in a university and I know that the core mandate of universities is to teach. What is happening in the universities should not be happening. At the moment, our universities do not have enough lecturers to teach. Before you do research, you have to go through some teaching. When I talk of teaching, it has to do with impacting knowledge. Knowledge is power but it can only be power when it is shared. Our universities need to be funded so that lecturers are employed because we do not have adequate lecturers in our universities. I would like to mention a case in point and the Chair should hear this. Recently, I read in the newspapers that the Commission for Higher Education (CHE) interrogated the management of Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) and some names were mentioned. There are claims that they invigilated many students. If I can remember, Prof. Mberia’s and Prof. Namusonge’s names were there. The CHE should allocate enough money to universities so that they employ adequate lectures to conduct research because they are not adequate. I was a lecturer at JKUAT in the Department of Media and Technology. At that time, lecturers who were PhD holders in the Department were very few. They are overwhelmed with the number of students carrying out research and need to be supervised because of inadequate personnel. Therefore, before the CHE puts information in the newspapers, it should find out how many qualified lecturers are in the universities."
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