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    "id": 918807,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/918807/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Milgo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13174,
        "legal_name": "Milgo Alice Chepkorir",
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    "content": "Our institutions of higher learning require funding to increase the volume of research, produce high quality graduates and also ensure that they compete globally and that we carry our country to become a middle-income earner. Otherwise, Vision 2030 will simply remain a blueprint without any achievement. Madam Temporary Speaker, it is also unfortunate that our universities are relying majorly on funding from the Government to conduct research. While we are asking the Government to increase funding, we challenge our universities to come up with other innovative ways of funding and planning for better research so that come the future, they shall be able compete. Our country has gone into a great level of governing this great nation by having devolution that has produced various counties. However, there are very many problems and unexploited resources in those counties. If there was any research going on in our institutions of higher learning, we would expect that these would be a cure to these counties in terms of extracting certain mineral resources and advising them to use different forms of knowledge. Madam Temporary Speaker, it is high time that research in our institutions of learning is relooked at afresh and more funding added so that the research that comes out will be able to cure the problems affecting our country. This Motion has come at the right time. I hope the concerned people are listening and that something will be done so that funding can be increased to our universities to enable them produce quality graduates. I support."
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