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    "content": "Our fore fathers came together, did harambees and purchased land for the purpose of the community. Then, they decided to start a school through harambee. With the introduction of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Act of 2013 which did away with the trustees, those people who had in good faith come together, raised funds, started harambee schools, which later became TVETs and universities, were now required to surrender every bit of that land and every other material they were holding in trust for the public. Some of them, especially the second and third generations of such leaders, decided to be greedy. In the case of Kiambu where land is in excess of thousands of acres, they say they are donating a little bit of it to the institution. No! That land was bought by our fathers and grandfathers who came together in the interest of wanting their children to acquire education. Why do you want to take that land for commercial purposes? That is why we have been very critical on that and say you shall and must return the land that is belonging to the public. Our Committee went to Kiambu Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) and, in fact, ejected those people and said: “You are persona non grata on the public land of the Kiambu people! We will not allow you to continue interfering in its affairs.” We will be pleading with this House to honestly deal with such matters. I do not want to call them thieves because that is a heavy word. We will be pleading with this house to firmly deal with such people who want to take that which belongs to the public. We are also urging the accounting officers to move with speed, work with the National Lands Commission, the Ministry of Lands and Physical Planning and the Ministry of Education, to ensure that they have secured land for those institutions. Many people are invading public land because of lack of title deeds. It is the same story at Kenyatta University and Maseno University. Some accounting officers have engaged in fraudulent activities of selling public land that is belonging to those institutions; which they are supposed to protect. The Committee recommends that the NLC, as entrenched in Article 67 of the Constitution, and the relevant ministries like the Ministry of Lands, Public Works, Housing and Urban Development, co-jointly with the county governments, as elucidated under Paragraph 8(b) and (c) of Part 2 of the Fourth Schedule of the Constitution, immediately ensure that all State corporations secure title deeds to all their parcels of land. Those institutions and the National Treasury must also prioritise the fencing off of all land holdings to forestall further encroachment. The Committee recommends that land encroachers face the full extent of the law, be evicted and charged in court. Another issue that we have encountered is outstanding construction works. We are in the process of coming up with a law that must safeguard those institutions. Look at the Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology where five buildings are undergoing construction that is involving big monies. You are told that a building will cost a few billion shillings. Monies in billions! Why start the construction of many new buildings instead of finishing one, and then going to another? Honestly, we do not know. Because of this, the institutions end up suffering. Mischievously, the heads of those institutions sign contracts that do not protect the institutions. They expose those institutions to fraudulent contractors. Because the institutions have to keep on extending the deadlines, those contractors have included very unimaginable fees in the contracts. If the institution extends the construction for a certain period of time, they must pay. We ask: Why? Why?"
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