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    "id": 1253520,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1253520/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Bumula, DAP-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Wanami Wamboka",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Chairlady, the proposed amendment intends to reduce Ksh600 million from the allocation of Government sponsored students who are admitted to the private universities and re-allocate the same amount for infrastructural support for public universities. We all agree that our public universities are struggling due to under-funding, which also affects the ability to expand and rehabilitate the existing infrastructure. This has, in turn, compromised the quality of education that our public universities offer. Though Ksh600 million is not adequate, it will go a long way in supporting the selected key universities - Moi University, Egerton University, the University of Nairobi, Chuka University, Masinde Muliro University, Maasai Mara University, Tom Mboya University in Homa Bay County and Kibabii University - which have serious infrastructural gaps. The allocation to private universities in the last five years to support Government sponsored students who are admitted there has been surrounded by grey areas, which we, as a House, should not allow. There are a lot of inconsistencies in that support to private universities, which can lead to the loss of public funds. We, as a House and Committee, are also making a pronouncement that the National Treasury should make no new allocations to private universities without the express approval of this House. The National Treasury should not use Article 223 of the Constitution as an avenue to allocate more resources to private universities until all the grey areas surrounding that funding are addressed and a go-ahead to allocate is granted by this House. The Leader of the Majority Party will help us pin down the Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury to adhere to this."
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