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    "id": 856615,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/856615/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ruaraka, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. T.J. Kajwang’",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 2712,
        "legal_name": "Tom Joseph Kajwang'",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, this is what the English from where I come call tautology. He is repeating himself quite unnecessarily. Section 20 (1) says that a university granted a charter in accordance with section 19 can do any of these things, and (e), may award degrees including postgraduate degrees and diplomas including postgraduate diplomas. Hon. Ichung’wah is inserting a paragraph which will say “exercise any of the functions specified in section 20(1)(e)”. He is repeating himself. It is already here that these people have the functions to do what is provided for in (e). Section 20(1)(e) says that the university granted a charter may award degrees including postgraduate degrees and diplomas including postgraduate diplomas. Now he is saying that he will exercise functions specified in section 20(1)(e). He is repeating himself. That is what the law has provided for. Section 15(2) says an institution to which a letter of interim authority is granted shall have power to…I see. What he is trying to do is that an institution to which a letter of interim authority has been granted shall award degrees and postgraduate degrees. Now, that will change the universities traction. If you have an interim letter of authority, you cannot award a degree."
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