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"content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I thank you very much for the opportunity. I will request for extra three minutes because the matter of Health is in my Committee. I also want to comment on Sen. Cherarkey’s Statement. On the matter of health, as the Chairperson of the Health Committee, we have had opportunity to visit a number of hospitals in counties, including Mama Lucy Kibaki Hospital. In our meeting, we made a raft of recommendations for Mama Lucy Kibaki Hospital. After our review, the County Government of Nairobi City has made some improvements in the areas that we had already asked to be addressed and attended to. This being a new Statement, we would wish as a Committee to be given time to visit and fact-find on that matter. However, realizing that over 10,200 facilities are in counties and requires the attention of the Senate Health Committee, I will be proposing to this House that we convert all the 67 Members of the Senate, for a period of time, to be Members of the Health Committee, so that we can disperse them to make field visits. From our field visits, there has been tremendous improvement in a number of facilities that we have visited, including Longisa County Referral Hospital in Bomet, Kisii Level 5 Hospital in Kisi County and Mombasa Level 5 Hospital and in Kwale County. As a Committee, we are seized of the matters that have been raised by the Senator for Nakuru County, Sen. Tabitha Keroche and we are going to take action. Mr. Temporary Speaker, allow me now to comment on the Statement by Sen. Cherarkey concerning Moi University. I want to say from the onset that the problems of Moi University are the most misunderstood. In summary, Moi University is in that situation not because of a management issue, but a government policy of increasing access to university education in this country. It should not be lost on Kenyans that Moi University has nurtured and has nine fully-fledged universities, by those who make comments to the extent of thinking that Moi University has been mismanaged. The loan that the honourable Senator for Nyandarua County was talking about was taken to acquire Kakoji Tea Training Centre in Karatina for purposes of training by Karatina University. When Moi University nurtured all these universities, they used their own resources to nurture and bring up those universities. When those universities were fully-fledged, all the loans and expenses were left with Moi University. How do you expect Moi University to repay a loan for Kakoji Training Centre in Karatina, used by Karatina University? The logical thing that should have happened during transition was to transfer the loan to Karatina University. In total, the amount of money utilised by Moi University to establish nine universities and create access to higher education in this country amounts to close to Kshs13 billion. It is just the other day because people are in a rush and a takeover, the Ministry of Investment, Trade and Industry took over Rivatex Limited. Moi University revived Rivatex Limited and invested their Kshs3.7 billion for purposes of training textile engineers for this country. This is a nation that is importing clothes, when we have an opportunity to grow cotton in Nyando, Elgeyo-Marakwet and Kerio Valley using agriculture. However, the Ministry of Investment Trade and Industry woke up one morning and declared it a parastatal for the Ministry. Moi University invested Kshs3.7 billion there, but all that we hear is Moi University has been mismanaged. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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