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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sotik, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Francis Sigei",
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    "content": "things in these institutions are going haywire. The public universities in this country are dying. The audit reports we have received on some public universities are terrible. I thank this Committee because we have moved forward. We have been going to the regional offices to interrogate these people. We went to Central Province, and the Vice-Chancellors and other leaders of those institutions could not report because they were not ready. We have many problems. First of all, the audit of the institutions is very far behind. We want to ask the Government to assist this Committee so that it moves forward and makes some issues known. Ethnicity is like cancer. We saw that in many institutions, staff members, from the top management to the lowest cadre, come from one ethnic group. We must move forward and look at these issues. How can we have one Kenya when an institution employs one tribe? We, as a Committee, are very serious. We realized that the people leading these institutions—the Vice-chancellors and managers—are either incompetent or corrupt. We found this in the variations of the contract sums of building projects in those institutions. One institution had made a variation of Ksh146,000,000. We were shocked. As a Committee, we will make serious recommendations. If this House implements them, our institutions will change in future. One other thing which we also discussed and the Chairman has mentioned heavily is the funding of private universities. This Committee brought the issue out. The Government has taken action to stop funding private universities. We are sure that our public universities will enrol many students soon. Poor people can take their children there. I also want to discuss the State Department for Public Works, a government institution. However, it is a problem. People are now seeking consultancy services because there is the issue of variation in the State Department for Public Works, where people are minting money from public institutions. I also want to talk about the land problems in some of these universities. Individuals have grabbed land which belongs to one of the institutions in Nairobi. We have serious Members of the Committee who have resolved to make those people uncomfortable wherever they are. We are going to have people taken to court. With those remarks, I support the Report."
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