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    "id": 1494249,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Bumula, DAP-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Wanami Wamboka",
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    "content": "implemented, they will enhance accountability, effectiveness, transparency, efficiency, prudent management, commercial viability and value for money in the State corporations and public investments in the governance and education sectors. Our key mandate is the person at the centre of this audit, that is the student. He or she matters because we are the protectors of public interest. We have funny stories in those institutions where students are disadvantaged every other day. As we speak, students of Moi University who went to a Government school in good faith, and went through their education for four, five or six years, have not and cannot graduate. We discussed the matters of Moi University here the other day. Students are suffering, but they are not supposed to suffer. It is the responsibility of the Government. That is why we place the student at the centre of our service to humanity. We call upon all those universities to ensure that the student is not disadvantaged in any way. Once the student and parent meet their part of the bargain, the student is supposed to have his legitimate share. We also have workers who work for those institutions. They have gone for many years without salaries. They are employed on permanent and pensionable terms. It is a shame that most of those institutions cannot and are not paying salaries. They are not fulfilling their obligation in statutory deductions. Workers work for an agency and you have been deducting their monies. Once they retire, there are no benefits. Those people will die. Our retirees are dying because of the mismanagement in those institutions. This should not be allowed. Most of them go without insurance. Moi University workers do not have insurance. Why does this happen? Just the other day, that institution was doing very well. But because of tribalism, it is now on its knees. When they picked their new Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Ayiro, he was doing a very good job. His only sin was that he was a Luhya. You saw elected Members of Parliament and the Governor walking to that institution to eject him out. He left because he is not a Kalenjin. But because he does a good job, he is on demand. Look at Daystar University today where Prof. Ayiro sits. It is enjoying profitability. If you look at where he was rejected because of his ethnicity, it is dead! I want to appeal to the Members of this House. Let us not look at education through the lenses of tribalism because we are killing it. Let the right people do the right things. We are proposing that those people who have been found to be incompetent should never hold public office at least so that they serve as a lesson to others. Hon. Temporary Speaker, we realize that most of those officers have questionable competencies. They lack exposure to the audit processes as most of those officers are ignorant or non-compliant with various provisions of the Public Finance Management (PFM) Act, 2012 and the Public Audit Act of 2015. We are proposing and recommending that the National Treasury and the Office of the Auditor-General conduct annual sensitization and capacity building for all accounting officers and finance staff in State corporations on their responsibility during the audit cycle and adherence to the International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS)"
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