Entry Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 99147,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/99147/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 400,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Mwiria",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Higher Education, Science and Technology",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 190,
        "legal_name": "Valerian Kilemi Mwiria",
        "slug": "kilemi-mwiria"
    },
    "content": "After you advertise, it tends to be the case that many of the applicants come from the local communities. If you advertise a position in Bondo, it is mainly the Luos who apply. It is the same if it is in a university in Meru where mostly the Meru will apply. This is partly out of the experience of the ethnic clashes of 2008. People are now getting scared to go tocertain parts of this country. So, one way of ensuring that we deal with this problem--- What would prevent us from rotating the current crop of Vice-Chancellors and the Deputy Vice-Chancellors? Why can we not move Prof. Onyango from Maseno University to the JKUAT and move Prof. Mibei from Moi University to Meru University and vice-versa ? I think this is a decision that can be taken for the sake of the country. We cannot have universities like Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology, for example, just being managed by Luhyas from the top all the way done. This is not a problem of just that institution. So, are we prepared to say, let us rotate the management of those institutions now that the damage was already done? Secondly, when we advertise, what will prevent us from saying that if the position is advertised in Kakamega, if you come from the local region, you need not apply? If it is advertised in Pwani University and you come from the Coast region, you do not apply for this senior position? I think we can say that for the sake of building a national outlook, because we continue to have universities managed by the locals, we recruit students nationally. So, it is a mockery. That national outlook must be representative not only in the student body, but also at the management level. So, we are doing an audit as a Ministry. If we are saying that in Government Ministries there should be no community that should be more than one-third, that should also be the case in our universities. We have already asked universities to give us a list of all their employees from the lowest cadre to the Vice- Chancellors and then we check. If universities are dominated by certain communities, then they will be asked to do appropriate balances. This is one way we can get to that."
}