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    "id": 1253537,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1253537/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kimani Ichung'wah (",
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    "content": "The premier university, which I am sure the Hon. Temporary Chairlady attended, is financially on its knees. It is unethical as leaders to allocate money to private businesses under the pretext – and I say this without flinching an eyelid – that we are funding what we call: “Publicly funded university students in private universities.” I put it to the Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Education last week that, until they give us a forensic audit showing us the students in those private universities… If you go to some of those private universities that are getting Ksh700 million funding, the money is being allocated to mere numbers and not students. There are no students in the lecture rooms. Look at the figure going to Kabarak University. When we talked about state capture in this country, people thought we were playing politics. State capture is real. Business people have taken over the running of Government Ministries. Business cartels have taken over legislating and appropriating resources on behalf of the people. We Members here are charged with appropriating money, not business people out there who are appropriating money for profit and not for the public good. We must now rise to the occasion and appropriate money appropriately for the public good and not for private gain. I support this amendment and want to re-emphasise that the national Treasury…"
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