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    "id": 306319,
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    "speaker_name": "Prof. Kamar",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Margaret Jepkoech Kamar",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, we received this observation from the Kibunjia Commission and we did our own analysis as a Ministry. We went to the University of Nairobi and it did not seem to apply. When you look at the University of Nairobi, the current Vice-Chancellor and the former one are from completely different regions. While analyzing to see if the members of staff come from where the current Vice-Chancellor comes from, the PF Numbers will show you that some were employed at the time when the former Vice-Chancellor was in place and who was not from the same region. We did the same analysis for Kenyatta University. The current and former Vice- Chancellors come from two different regions. It is the same thing for Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) and Moi University. The current Vice-Chancellors have taken over from their colleagues who are from different regions. For that reason, we were able to align the very junior staff only, that is, Grade One to Grade Four. They are not just aligned to Vice-Chancellors, but they are aligned where the Vice-Chancellor is coming from the same region. So, in our analysis, it was the region that was influencing the junior staff in the university more than where the Vice- Chancellor came from. The reason was simply the explanation that from Grade One to Grade Four, most people would not move, say, from Mombasa to Western. So, you would find that people in Grade One to Grade Four, say, in Mombasa being in Kilifi and the same applies in Moi University. As we move forward to improve the salaries of these members of staff, we would like to have a situation where a cleaner gets a salary that would warrant him to be employed anywhere. With the current salary structure, it becomes very difficult to get somebody from the Coast Province to go to Meru. This is because our junior staff still rely on their families to subsidize the income for themselves and their children. That we found to be slightly different, but we do recognize the fact that there is some tendency towards the senior members of staff. It looks like when a university is opened, say, Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology (MMUST) most of the people from around there would move to that university. You start running Chepkoilel Campus and most of the members of staff will come from the villages around there. We observed and discussed it openly. I want to assure this House that that will be a thing of the past because we have committed ourselves to changing the face of the national institutions. It is not just for the universities, but also the technical training institutes."
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