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    "id": 1272950,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1272950/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for your indulgence. I commend Hon. Chepkonga for seeking this extension. I would just like to caution Members because Hon. Chepkonga is aware that certain aspects of the second item, which is the Universities Regulations, 2023, seek to amend the Universities Act. We requested that he ensures that matters touching on university funding are not amended using regulations. If anybody wants to amend an Act of Parliament, they should table an amendment Bill to the particular Act, but not use regulations to amend the actual statute. I just want to remind Hon. Chepkonga to table a Motion either for disapproval or for partial approval of those regulations, so that we approve what relates to the Open University and the funding of universities. If Hon. Chepkonga had gone through the regulations with the Departmental Committee on Education, he would have realised that they are not in tandem with the new funding model for university education. We must ensure that the Government is speaking in a coherent manner in whatever we do, so that we do not talk about a new model of funding public universities and then we use regulations to amend the statute. I know that some people are very excited that by dint of time, those regulations would stand approved. I must commend Hon. Chepkonga for seeking extension of time for consideration. I am certain that there are characters who imagined that those regulations would stand approved by passage of time. Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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