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President William Ruto during the presentation of the report of the National Taskforce on Police Reforms by Chairman of the Taskforce David Maraga at State House, Nairobi. [PCS]

In the starkest admission of the failures of his new university funding model, President William Ruto last Monday set up a 129-member committee to review the contentious framework.

The decision came in the wake of public criticism over the funding model that many describe as discriminative and which has disenfranchised those from poor backgrounds.

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