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    "speaker_name": "Bumula, DAP-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Wanami Wamboka",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Speaker, you should recall that the Committee I chair brought this issue to this House when Moi University closed indefinitely. We summoned them to the Committee and listened to their problems. The problems are grave. The problems bedevilling Moi University are not small. The university remained closed for months until less than a week ago when they had an agreement with the union, the Ministry and students to re-open. But that is just cosmetic. The problems in that university are too many. The Vice-Chancellor is a guest at the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) all the time. We have a problem. If this House does not unite, we are going to lose most universities. We have another time bomb. The mighty University of Nairobi is headed in the same direction, if nothing happens, and it is because of leadership. Another case in mind is Kenyatta University. Managers of these institutions decide to send the substantive Vice-Chancellor on leave, by-pass all senior Deputy Vice-Chancellors and appoint a junior officer, who has been a DVC for hardly two years, to head the institution. What are you doing to the senior DVCs who have been in the organisation for more than 10 years? What are you doing to their experience? You end up having a demoralised lot that cannot put the universities where they are supposed to be. I sought the indulgence of the Speaker and tomorrow we will discuss the funding model. Taking students to private universities has killed public universities. My Committee came up with a Bill to regulate funding of public students in private universities. We went through all the processes. Hon. Temporary Speaker, cartels out there are many in this sector. They approached our Committee, but it refused to engage them. As we speak, someone decided to delete all the clauses in the Bill that we had brought to this House to regulate how students are supposed to be taken in by Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service (KUCCPS) in these universities. What are we doing? We are killing our universities. I will talk about it tomorrow. I will seek the authority of this House to overturn the Report of the Departmental Committee on Education. We cannot allow cartels and thieves to kill our universities and follow us through in this House to curtail us from making the laws that are supposed to serve the public interest. We also ask the Ministry of Education to be serious in giving funds to these institutions. We have the Differentiated Unit Cost (DUC) funding model and the new funding model, but the universities do not access these funds. What do you want these vice-chancellors to do with our children? They cannot pay salaries and they cannot take care of these students. We ask the Government to be serious and prioritise the education of our children. Once you compromise The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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