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    "speaker_name": "Ms. Odhiambo Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would want to say that we need to encourage that leadership and support that leadership by pointing the positive things that are done but by also encouraging improvement where there is need for improvement. One of the areas I would encourage improvement is the issue of allowing or enabling democratic space, especially for students. One of the things that has come out clearly in that Report is that the situation escalated from a very simple thing that could have been sorted out. The simple thing had to do with the poverty of many of the students. Many of them were not able to pay the dues that were required by the university in good time. Because that was not forthcoming, many of them were not allowed to sit for their examinations and that precipitated the violence. There are many issues that have been raised whether there are lecturers that incited the students and whether the student leaders incited the students. But I would want to say that if students are given a voice to air their concerns, then a lot of these issues can be nipped in the bud. I would, therefore, encourage that we enable and empower our students very timely to raise issues of concerns to them. Some of them, sometimes to us, as people, who have passed there and who have been there, may not look like they are critical issues but to the students, they are critical issues. I know that at the time when I was at the university, one of the issues that we used to strike on was that"
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