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    "speaker_name": "Tinderet, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Julius Melly",
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    "content": " Yes. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Chairlady. First, I commend Hon. Wamboka for moving this amendment, which I support. The Departmental Committee on Education examined the Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs). We went through every State Department and realised that certain State Departments waste public funds. One of them is the Government allocation to private universities. When we went through it, we realised they did not have the correct number of students. When we went to find out the number of students in those universities, they were less than what we had. We asked those universities to give us the actual number of students and their admission numbers, but theyare yet to do so. Public universities have been suffering from under-funding because of the influence peddling by private universities, which get more funds than they require. In fact, when we went ahead, they had been allocated Ksh4.2 billion and yet, they have no first-year students this year. Last year, they were allocated Ksh3.2 billion. So, they were allocated Ksh1 billion more. When we investigated that, we found out that the student The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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