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    "id": 1498700,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1498700/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "in the universities remains a major challenge not just at the University of Nairobi and Moi University, but in almost all our public universities. If the Cabinet Secretary visits almost all our public universities, he will discover that they all have major stalled projects. Some include gates and guest houses built at the cost of hundreds of millions of shillings. I would like to hear what the Ministry and the Cabinet Secretary are doing in terms of policy changes to ensure that public universities do not spend public money that they get through the new funding model to invest in ‘white elephant’ mega projects that are never completed. They are always a conduit for the pilferage of public resources, especially now that they will definitely get more money. My Question is: What policy initiatives or interventions are you putting in place, as the new Cabinet Secretary in charge of Education, to specifically deal with that issue in our public universities? This is because if the lack of Exchequer releases to universities was a problem; the bigger problem would be how that Exchequer is expended once it gets to those universities. Visit those universities, and you will see what we are talking about. Whether you go to Moi University, the University of Nairobi, or Lower Kabete Campus, some projects have been left there since the ' Nyayo ' days. The situation is the same in the Kikuyu Campus of the University of Nairobi, Chuka University, Embu University and South Eastern University. There is no single university that does not have a stalled mega project. Those who sit in the Budget and Appropriations Committee will tell you the kind of lobbying that is usually there during the budget-making process to allocate resources to those universities. However, those projects never come to fruition and are never completed. Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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