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    "id": 1494260,
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    "speaker_name": "Bumula, DAP-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Wanami Wamboka",
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    "content": "are asking for fairness. Incidentally, those that have resources are given more. I do not know if they are applying the biblical wisdom that whoever has more will be given more, and they will live in abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them. That is because if you look at the poverty index of some of the communities in this country, they are so poor that they have not even started any development. However, you do not allocate them the money. Instead, you give to the most developed. Just like we were arguing here earlier on, money that is allocated to roads is given to more developed regions while those that do not even have a murram roads, receive nothing. That is unfair even before God. The Committee, therefore, recommends that the Government halts the establishment of new TVETs until the existing ones are adequately equipped and upscaled to address the disparities in resource allocation. The Committee further recommends that the sector-working group targets marginalised regions in order to close the resource distribution gap. It also recommends that the sector-working group gives priority to the TVET sectors during resource allocation. They propose an increased allocation of resources to address the long-standing issue of under-funding that has hindered the growth and development of those institutions. Adequate funding would not only enable the enhancement of infrastructure, but will also attract and retain high qualified instructors, further elevating the quality of the education that is provided. Hon. Temporary Speaker, the Committee wishes that the House adopts this Report with amendments to recommendations regarding Kisumu National Polytechnic that irregular cash payments appearing on Page 41, Paragraph 2.12, that was made for cash or works done amounting to Ksh2,308,996, be surcharged to the governing Council and the long-standing interest of Ksh37,800, appearing on Page 41, Paragraph 2.16, be written off from their books of account since no money was lost. It was as a result of demise of an employee. Hon. Temporary Speaker, the Committee further acknowledges that penalties be rendered to various institutions, including Kisumu National Polytechnic where the governing Council was disbanded and surcharged for irregular excess expenditure of Ksh14 million without approval. Further, the Council of the same institution had an un-authorised expenditure totalling to Ksh1,150,000, which the Committee surcharged the Council Members for the monies that were misappropriated. We are taking those punitive measures so that even the councils of those institutions become serious. They go to those institutions just to fleece the money. Councils take money without approval in the name of allowances. They approve things that do not exist. In some instances – like in Moi University - the Council collected money from the bank and gave to it one individual to pay people as and when they feel like it. Like in Kisumu National Polytechnic, we have recommended harshly that the Council be disbanded, and action taken. We are inviting EACC and DCI to move with speed so that those culprits can start to respect public finances. You are taken to an institution to help it and not to collapse it. This must be approved so that it serves as an example and a deterrent to those crooked council members and officers who have been called to serve and yet, they take advantage of the public."
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