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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kitui South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) Rachael Nyamai",
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        "legal_name": "Richard Ken Chonga Kiti",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. First, I would like to thank the Chair of the Committee, Hon. Chepkonga, for doing a very good job for this House and note that I have been following the work the Committee has been doing. They have given very good recommendations to the concerned institutions when they annul a regulation. They have also done the same on this. They identified areas of weakness, areas of contradiction, and gave a very good way forward on how these regulations can be brought back to this House so that they can be passed the right way. Looking at the annulled regulations, we see an institution initially given roles taken away from them through regulations not brought to the House properly. The institution is the KNQA that was created in 2015 with the purpose of ensuring that there is proper harmonisation and coordination of training, assessment, education generally, and ensuring there are proper standards in the education sector. It is not right for this institution to be denied its role through these regulations and its roles given to another entity. For that reason, I support the annulment and agree with the Committee that the ministry should go back and look at where it went wrong and ensure it does not contradict existing laws and other regulations so that it can bring it to the House properly. In this Report, the Committee has also indicated clearly that these regulations are bringing extra costs not only to universities, but also to all other institutions that are within universities including our businessmen and businesswomen who operate in universities. It is affecting lecturers, students, researchers, and many others who work in universities. The Committee Chairperson has also clearly explained that no survey was done to show the impact of the regulations to all communities within universities. For that, I agree with the Committee that we cannot pass regulations that have not clearly provided a report to show that a survey was done to indicate the impact of the regulations on the people who brought us to this House. This being the institution that represents the common people, we must say that these regulations do not qualify. The Chairperson very importantly and clearly elaborated the matter of public participation, which this House has taken seriously including in the budget-making process. It is clear that we cannot pass anything without asking for the opinion of the people we represent. When these regulations are brought here, public participation was not done. Therefore, we do not know what universities and their leadership and all other entities think. Based on those three points, I would like to agree with the Chairperson, Hon. Chepkonga, and the Committee, that these regulations must be annulled and taken back to the universities so that they can be brought through the front door and not through the back door. Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for the opportunity."
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