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    "id": 1505610,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Kamar",
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        "legal_name": "Margaret Jepkoech Kamar",
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    "content": "The other one that I want to mention is the issue of a university called Moi University. Moi University is the second university in this country. The problems and the challenges of Moi University are not being analysed properly. Moi University gave birth to 12 universities. In giving birth to 12 universities it spent its own internal resources. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it will surprise you that the mother university called the University of Nairobi refused to mother small universities. They had one or two universities. Perhaps, Kenya Science and Technical University only because they knew of the financial implications. The Moi University Vice-Chancellors have been extremely generous. In their generosity, they even took loans for universities. In fact, we are trying to see in our committee if we can table those figures. It is important for the country to know that it has nothing to do with mismanagement. It has to do with the generosity of the Vice-Chancellors. The Vice-Chancellors of Moi University gave birth. They started by giving birth to Maseno University, Masinde Muliro University, Kisii University, Narok University, Karatina University, Mama Ngina University and all sorts of universities. Talk of every corner of this country, including Garissa, which was the baby that they had. In all those universities they actually released money to their own investment. It is very important that this analysis is done properly, so that Moi University is paid or refunded the money that they spend in the baby universities. As I said, in their generosity, they have brought everything to a standstill. In their generosity, members of staff are suffering today because their statutory deductions and loans are not being paid. This is as a result of the generosity of a vice-chancellor who did not do the maths that the other universities did. If you look at the three universities that were nursed by Kenyatta University, they are doing well. Also the three universities that were nursed by Jomo Kenyatta are doing well. However, talk of one Moi University that nursed 12 universities. There is no way they would have survived. This was a time bomb, it has now arrived. It is at our doorstep now and it has to be sorted out. Subsequently, even as we are looking at the unit costs of universities, we also need to look at the things that have made the universities not to perform the way they are supposed to perform."
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