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    "id": 1512901,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Bumula, DAP-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Wanami Wamboka",
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    "content": "the education of any nation, there is no possibility that it can prosper. We urge the Government and the State Department for Higher Education and Research to be serious, civilised and truthful to what they promised Kenyans. We want to see our universities back. As a Committee, we have become very fierce. Most of the heads of these institutions do not take the work of the National Assembly seriously. You summon them, but they know the audit cycle and how it works. They come up with excuses like they have gone to Mombasa. We have a ruling from the Milimani Law Courts that speaks to the audit cycle. Upon tabling of these audit reports, the audit committees have only three months to go through them. If we are not going to instil discipline, then we cannot succeed. We will have failed, as a Committee and House. From last week, our Committee decided not to entertain any excuses from any officer whom we have called to appear for the sake of the audit reports. I call upon this House to stand in unison and look at how universities are coming down because of initiations of too many projects. You will find a university has more than five projects which it cannot fund. All of them are now going in abeyance. They cannot continue, and contractors are on site and they continue charging them fees because they cannot pay them. These are some of the things that we, as a Committee, are trying to come up with to ensure that our universities are running very well. As we indicated earlier, we have decided to be very punitive to those officers who want to use public money without due procedure. That is why we have surcharged people. For example, at Kisumu National Polytechnic, we surcharged the Council because a national institution of such magnitude wants to operate like a kiosk. They take money from the coffers of the institution without any procedure. Such people must be surcharged. They must not hold office. There are officers who are stealing public funds. We have recommended to this House that they should not hold public office forever because it is for the responsible people who are ready to serve this nation diligently. I thank my Committee Members who were diligent on this, the leadership and all the Members of this House for the support I have received. I beg to reply. Thank you very much."
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