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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kiambaa, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Njuguna Kawanjiku",
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    "content": "There are quite a number of issues that are raised in this Report. I have noted that Kenya Medical Training College (KMTC) in my area is now referred to as Karuri KMTC. We have had that debate with the CEO of KMTC. They are doing an amazing work in terms of making sure that they equip our young people, the Gen. Zs. KMTC has been in existence for a long time and it is good to confirm that we are unable to offer some courses because of lack of classrooms and space. Through the Departmental Committee on Health, we lobbied the Budget and Appropriations Committee (BAC) for funds and got about Ksh70 million for expansion. This will go towards expanding KMTC so that it can accommodate many students. Before getting the contractor to start the expansion, there was the issue of the title deed, which I am quite aware of. I am doing my level best to make sure that KMTC gets hold of its own title deed. Majority of our public institutions are within the same vicinity as KMTC. The people who did the sub-division then allocated a chunk of land to different public institutions. Some of them include Karuri Level IV Hospital, Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) offices, National Intelligence Service (NIS) offices, National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF) office and the Judiciary which have one title deed. It has become a tedious process to separate and have each institution get hold of its own title deed. As promised, I will ensure that the people already assigned to do this task of sub-dividing the land and giving out title deeds to the individual institutions do so and ensure that Karuri KMTC has its own title deed. We are at the tail end of the process and I am certain it will have its own title deed. It is good to confirm that the kind of job that is done by those institutions is good. However, we must also call out other institutions. There is a very big problem. Today in the morning, we had a case in the Committee that I chair of the Southern Bypass Agreement between the Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA) and the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) that was made in 2014. KeNHA was supposed to compensate KWS for the public land they were using. It was tedious. As we tried to solve the problem between those two entities, the office holders were not willing to be reasonable. Those are two public institutions that took each other to court. It is a serious litigation and money is involved. One keeps on wondering because KeNHA and KWS are Government institutions that had an agreement. However, after the road was constructed, KeNHA decided not to pay KWS the amount that they had agreed they will pay. It is now looking for advisory opinions from the Attorney-General and the Treasury. Those Government institutions took each other to court and the Committee recommended that they try as much as they can to solve that matter out of court. They should look for an arbitrator for an out-of-court settlement. The two Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) interests should be public interest. They should not push their own personal interests in as far as public funds are concerned. This is a serious concern and I commend what the committee is proposing. As you know, litigations take us nowhere. What usually happens is that once you have a court case, you cannot implement whatever you wanted to implement, be it as a committee or as an institution. The Public Investments Committee on Social Services, Administration and Agriculture recommendations are timely. We should do away with litigations and solve such matters so that the country’s public funds can be prudently used without delays. Delays cause the public The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for informationpurposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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