{"id":335,"date":"2016-04-16T15:32:24","date_gmt":"2016-04-16T15:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sgs.kibu.ac.ke\/?p=335"},"modified":"2016-04-16T15:32:24","modified_gmt":"2016-04-16T15:32:24","slug":"successfully-defence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kibu.ac.ke\/sgs\/successfully-defence\/","title":{"rendered":"Successfully Defence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">Faraji Anduku Yatundu successfully defended his thesis entitled \u201cEffect of Branding Strategies on Performance of Public Sugar Manufacturing Firm in Western Kenya\u201d. His supervisors were Dr. Otiso Ntabo and Dr Wanyama Kadian. He is the first Post graduate student to successfully defend a thesis. The event that was organized by the school of graduate studies was chaired by the Dean of the graduate school, Prof. Stanley Ngome Mutsotso. 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