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"speaker_name": "Nyando, ODM",
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"content": "If these reports are anything to go by, then we must be afraid as a nation. Education, as has been said times more than number, is the key to a better living but if we compromise that very key then the future of our generations and the generations that will come will be very bleak. The competitiveness within and without our country then becomes compromised. You do not necessarily have to work in your country. When jobs are advertised, especially those that attract international attention, we need people who can compete with others who perhaps enjoy better education than us."
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"content": "If our universities together with TTIs will channel out people who are not well versed with the job trends and requisite qualifications for placements, then we do not have a remedy. If we are killing our universities, the University of Nairobi (UoN) to boot, which has brought so many people into the lime light…Very many people went through this most prestigious university of our country. A university that ranks so highly in Africa and internationally but just because of poor management and the appetite for corruption, we are killing the UoN. It is a travesty and this must be looked into. If it is about management, we still have men and women out here who are qualified to run these universities. Let us put them into the universities and bring them back to life. When we were going to school, any person who got admission into a private school was a failure. In fact, we used to call them harambees to simply mean they belonged to people who are not government. The government institutions were the in-thing and each time we got letters from government institutions, we definitely knew that we had passed exams. How it turned around that private institutions do better than public ones is a wonder. It is the government that comes up with regulations. If we allow private institutions to fester, then who will control the fees that have to be paid? If we kill our public universities and only allow private universities to thrive, who will afford education in these private universities?"
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"content": "That is why I was even afraid that we are selling government institutions at the altar of private investors. Public universities must be the barometer upon which every standard is measured. That is why you have Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS) which is not a private but public entity and Bureau Veritas in the international community. They are public institutions."
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"content": "If this Report is adopted as is, we must reset this country and take it back to where it has been. Unfortunately, even with the advancements that we now have with digital platforms, our management becomes a problem to us. You would have expected that with all these advancements, we would have better management of our institutions and firms but, the reverse is becoming true. The current generation cannot run institutions that our grandparents put a lot of their efforts through sweat and blood for them to be going concerns. As a nation, there are many things that have gone wrong but we have to step back, reflect and retool anew for our country to move forward."
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"speaker_name": "Nyando, ODM",
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"content": "I support this Report, Hon. Temporary Speaker and thank you for the opportunity"
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"speaker_name": "Hon. Martha Wangari",
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"content": " Very well. Hon. Chairman, you can now reply."
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"speaker_title": "Hon. Wanami Wamboka",
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, I beg to reply. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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"content": "Firstly, let me sincerely thank the leadership of this institution, the National Assembly, starting from Hon. Speaker, the Clerk of the National Assembly, our Committee Clerk, Ms Christine Ndiritu, and my Committee Members starting with my able Deputy Chairman, Hon. Anthony Kibagendi, Hon. (Amb) Francis Sigei, Hon. James Wamacukuru, Hon. Maurice Bisau, Hon. Rebecca Tonkei, Hon. Alpha Miruka, Hon. Mark Mwenje, the Deputy Minority Whip, Hon. Bonaya Gollo, Hon. Shadrack Mwiti, Hon. Moses Kirima, Hon. Daniel Karitho, Hon. Chiforimodo Munga Mangale and Hon. Mwalimu Joseph Tunoi. I want to thank them because since we started, when we were constituted initially and reconstituted a second time, we have never lacked quorum as a committee. That is something we do not take for granted. We thank our Members for their commitment and contribution. Hon. Temporary Speaker, in line with the mandate and in a bid to reduce the audit backlog, the Committee resolved to first consider the Report of the Auditor-General for the Financial Years 2018/2019 to 2020/2021. This decision was made to ensure that the past audit queries are addressed and that the institutions under our oversight are held accountable on time. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I am pleased to inform the House that the Committee has since commenced consideration of audit reports for the Financial Years 2021/2022 and 2023/2024, which brings us up to date. This is in line with the requirement of the Public Finance Management (PFM) Act, which demands timely scrutiny of public investments for effective financial oversight. If this House may recall, there is a case between officers of the City County of Nairobi and the Auditor-General. The Court ruled that the Auditor-General must table these reports in this House upon which the House audit committees must, within three months, dispense with. I want to report to this House that we are now almost at par with the constitutional requirements. In a few months, I think our Committee will have dispensed with all the issues that we are supposed to deal with and we will be good to go. Having tabled the Committee's Report, I now wish to urge the Committee on Implementation to move with speed and follow up on the implementation of the recommendations contained therein. This is particularly important as some of these recommendations are time-bound and have far-reaching implications on the quality and efficiency of service delivery in our public education institutions. When I was moving our report, I mentioned that the Departmental Committee of Health and the Committee of Implementation reached some decisions on some of these institutions, precisely the Kenyatta University Referral and Training Hospital. The Kenyatta University students are supposed to have full access to this institution because that is the purpose for which the institution came to be, but five years later you realise that decision has not been implemented. We call upon the Committee of Implementation to be firm to ensure that decisions of this House are followed to the letter. Another incident is the issue pitting the trustees at the Kiambu Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) against the Board of Governors. The Technical and Vocational Education Act of 2013 put the last nail in the coffin for these so-called “trustees” issues, that the institution has to go back fully into the hands of the management of the school and the Board. The trustees have, without mandate, gone ahead and even taken loans on the titles of these institutions. It is an immoral thing. This is something that we need to follow up on very quickly. Upon approval, I will ask the House…Hon Murugara wants to inform me. I do not know if that is..."
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"content": " Do you want to be informed?"
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"content": " Yes, Hon. Temporary Speaker."
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