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    "id": 977841,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/977841/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Seme, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) James Nyikal",
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    "content": "We talk of housing and assume that we are going to have high-level buildings. Real housing for people in the rural areas will be led by people who have these skills, who can build neat simple houses with proper electrification and proper plumbing systems. This will only come from the TVETs. Hon. Speaker, the Government has heavily invested in TVETs. I support this because it will take us far. Therefore, to appoint a man of this calibre is something I support. If he is hearing me, I hope that we are looking forward to changing our production. We should not import small things from other countries. Now that we cannot go to China, we should be able to produce the small radios and the small things we get from them. Regarding the Ambassador, again, this is State Department for University Education and Research. If he has 30 years’ experience in public service as a diplomat in education, that is necessary. The challenge we have in our university education now is that about five to 10 years back, we had massive expansion of the university space as a result of two factors. One, there was obvious cheating in exams, which led to a large number of students who actually qualified. When we tightened that, now we do not even have enough students for the spaces available. We now want to put the universities together. The other factor is that we delinked bed-space based admissions. This has now become a big security problem. The third one is that we are now talking of the CBC. This must be based on research with somebody who understands research, so that we run our country in these matters with a scientific and technical background and not because someone is well connected or they have some political backing. With those remarks, I support the appointment of the two officers in the respective positions."
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