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    "id": 925280,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/925280/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tharaka, DP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. George Gitonga",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "George Gitonga Murugara",
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    "content": "Let us go to university education. It is good to give an example of my constituency, Tharaka, where we have a university college that was given a Charter the other day. I have been to it and it is possibly emphasising on arts instead of sciences. We must move away from arts. Chartered university colleges like Tharaka University College should be funded properly to offer science courses like what we are talking about. It should advance scientific education, which we need more. I have one sub-county known as Tharaka North, which has expansive land that is similar to what we have in countries where such centres have been established. Land is available and water will be available, if we open up the area. If we go to Tharaka North, places like Kathangachini, Kamaguna and other areas, and establish centres similar to the Malindi Space Centre, we will be making a step towards advancing development in the country. In areas where there is insecurity, we would have sufficient security to protect the citizens from any lawlessness. As we have said, we have sufficient land in the country. My constituency has sufficient land. Let us establish more of these centres. Let the country move towards space science, just like the countries that started doing it in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Even though in those days we thought of those activities as space wars, they were efforts towards technological advancement."
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