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    "speaker_name": "Tinderet, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Julius Melly",
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    "content": "accommodated within the present fiscal space. Therefore, they demanded what could be easily implemented, and the university opened. They gave the following opportunities for increasing revenue for income-generating activities. That is what the Committee asked Moi University to do. They need to ensure that they increase revenue from the farm's idle assets, short-term training, consultancies, domain funds, and research. The university was directed to project the revenue expected from the income-generating activities over the next three years, from 2024 up to 2027. The university was directed to augment Exchequer resources with enhanced own revenue to increase its revenue. It was directed to negotiate a priority payment plan with staff and creditors and progressively pay the current pending bills. Exchequer resources will be prioritised for the payment of salaries. The payroll stands at Ksh403,936,046 each month. There are immediate actions for re-opening the university. They have five steps to make sure that the university is re-opened by 4th November 2024. The National Treasury released Ksh609 million in October 2024 to Moi University. Ksh300 million will be disbursed for scholarships in October 2024. This is in addition to Ksh217 million disbursed in August 2024. Ksh219.9 million will be disbursed for tuition in October 2024. This is in addition to Ksh127.2 million disbursed in August 2024. Ksh89 million will be disbursed as capitation for ongoing students in October 2024. This is in addition to Ksh269 million disbursed in August 2024. The disbursement of Ksh609 million will enable the university to pay pending staff salaries for September and October which is a total of Ksh807 million. The university was directed to meet the difference of Ksh198 million through its revenue, projected at Ksh206 million each month. The fourth action is that the National Treasury will avail an additional Ksh500 million to Moi University by 15th November 2024. The fifth action is that a Caretaker Committee will be constituted to strengthen the management of Moi University during the recovery period. I remember one of the issues that was raised was management. The Committee said that it would have a Caretaker Committee. However, there is a major risk that the university faces. The major risk against disbursement of funds for loans and scholarships is the order issued by the High Court of Kenya at Nairobi on 3rd October 2024 in Petition No.412 of 2023 Kenya Human Rights Commission and three others versus the Attorney-General and four others. I think this is the issue of the new funding model, which they want to use the funds to disburse scholarship and loans. But through the Ministry, they have gone to court. To mitigate against the risk, the Ministry, through the Office of the Attorney-General, has filed an application to set aside and discharge the order to facilitate the release of funds to students and universities. Hon. Temporary Speaker, the Committee has recommended that Moi University should re-open on 4th November 2024. It is to be noted that staff unions will need to sign a return-to- work formula to promote consensus and set the stage for re-opening. An inter-ministerial committee, comprising the Ministry of Education, the National Treasury and the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection, is negotiating with the staff unions on the issues raised regarding the implementation of the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) 2017/2021. This Statement is signed by the Principal Secretary, Higher Education Loans Board. As you remember in the morning, they had given about a two sentence Statement which I, as the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Education and Research, rejected because it did not respond to the Statement raised by Hon. Wamboka. When I talked to the Ministry, they said that the actionable areas that they have detailed here will be implemented. The university will re-open. My committee is also seized of most the teething issues that are affecting the university which we will visit. One of the things that we have discussed, between my Committee and the Ministry of Education, is to make sure that we have a robust and efficient management that is able to run the university and bring it back to its feet. 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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