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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ojaamong",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Labour",
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        "legal_name": "Sospeter Odeke Ojaamongson",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, if you read the Report on page 34 and recommendation No.14, let me read it, for the benefit of Members:- “The University should take into consideration the regional representation in the recruitment and promotion of its employees so as to counter the negative ethnicity that is currently perceived. The allegations of the use of vernacular in meetings in some departments said to be dominated by one ethnic group is serious and the University must stop this behavior” I am not cooking issues. I am just being polite by mentioning one name. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, Kenyatta University is a national and international university. We need good programmes but for instance, we find that semesters are shortened the disadvantage of students who lack preparation towards the end. All of a sudden, a semester which is supposed to run for around 16 weeks is reduced to 15 weeks, 12 weeks or 10 weeks. The students are so disadvantaged and cannot prepare well. These courses are stressful and eventually, students can go on strike. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the next thing I want to talk about is the Higher Education Loans Board (HELB). Sometime back, I said that the HELB acts in secrecy for no reason at all. The students blame Members of Parliament saying that we should assist them through the Constituencies Development Fund (CEF) and yet we cannot even know how much they are given. Unfortunately, the university administration also does not know how much they are given. Even the students themselves are not able to know exactly how much. At the time the money is disbursed from the HELB to universities, you cannot know when it is remitted. If the HELB needs us to assist it, let it bring whatever requirements students have in this Parliament so that we can see how we can best assist them other than torturing the students and subjecting them to unnecessary stress and eventually, making them not do exams. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is my appeal that the HELB should be very transparent. It should be publishing how much money the students get in time so that they can prepare for exams. You will find that at the universities now, as we talk about corruption, we have special students from certain regions who are given specific courses to study. Those from other communities in Kenya are admitted to study very bad courses. I do not think the constituency I represent has engineering students at the university. They are qualified but because---"
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