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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kiminini, DAP-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Bisau Kakai",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I am also a Member of the Public Investment Committee on Governance and Education. Truly, as the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Education and Research has said, this is like prescribing aspirin to a patient who requires proper surgery. Looking at Moi University, this is purely a governance and management issue. If you look at the staffing levels, Moi University opened many campuses. For example, Kabianga and Karatina Universities. During our last Committee meeting, we asked Karatina University what they are doing because their books are very clean. When they opened other campuses, there was a gap in staff rationalisation. There is also the issue of staff who are retiring and discontinuation of the parallel programmes. Why has the management been unable to rationalise so that they have staff that matches? For example, if staff are retiring or there is natural attrition, how comes the management is unable to rationalise? The other critical issue is that this university has a lot of assets like land. I asked the Vice-Chancellor why they teach entrepreneurship, but they are unable to come up with projects that will generate income. They also teach livestock management and do not generate money from dairy farming. If they teach entrepreneurship courses, have land, assets and brains, why are they unable to generate income? They said that the National Treasury does not avail money on time. We expect that if you are the Vice-Chancellor, you should think outside the box and generate income. As I wind up there is also the issue of maintaining proper records yet they offer a Bachelor in records management. Students have to graduate as we sort out the issue of salaries amounting to Ksh800 million. We can sort out the September and October salaries. What about those of November and December? We need to do a proper surgery, starting with getting a new management that will turn around this university to where it used to be. It has potential, infrastructure and resources in terms of land. It is just a matter of coming up with a committee. 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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