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    "id": 1342169,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1342169/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kilgoris, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Julius Sunkuli",
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    "content": " Hon. Deputy Speaker, I want to thank my learned friend and Chairman of the Committee for the kind introduction about my historical past and to describe power that I no longer have. The University Regulations 2023 do not meet many requirements. They fail both in matters of procedure as well as matters of substance. We as a Committee looked at these regulations with a tooth comb. We also had conversations with the Cabinet Secretary and his officers who came before us. We did inform them what we thought was wrong with those regulations. I do not want to repeat what the Mover has said, but in short, firstly, these regulations are guilty of duplicity of roles. Once you give one authority power, you cannot take that power to another authority. That will be contravention of the law. So, we wanted the functions that they wanted to give themselves to be left intact. The regulations should not, therefore, attempt to transfer powers that were properly seated in another organisation. The second thing is that these regulations were published without public participation. Public participation is a principle on which many things fall on now in Kenya. It is no longer just a procedural requirement, but a constitutional requirement. These regulations should have been published in the newspapers as required and the public invited to come and give their input. These regulations have failed on that ground. The big problem that Hon. Chepkonga has brought forward is the idea that Parliament can only be informed in form of regulations of the things that are already happening in the ministries. Parliament, like law, cannot operate in vain. What precedes action is the regulations; regulations do not come after the action. If the Presidential Task Force Report is already being 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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