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    "content": "without the approval of the Cabinet Secretary in consultation with the Cabinet Secretary for the time being responsible for matters relating to finance. `Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, this is a matter that is very dear to me more so from my experiences as the Vice-Chairman of the Public Investments Committee (PIC), where we have been providing oversight to the public universities. I will give the House a classic example of two public universities which have set up universities in Arusha and Rwanda. The Jomo Kenyatta University of Science and Technology (JKUAT) and Kenyatta University (KU) some years back used public resources to buy buildings in Kigali, Rwanda, and set up universities before they got accreditation and approval from the Ministry of Education and the Commission for Higher Education. About Kshs300 billion was invested in Kigali. Not only is the procurement process of the purchased building questionable but even the person who was acting Director of that university has since disappeared with a handsome amount of taxpayers’ money. The same case happened with KU. The two universities were notorious in competing to set up university campuses outside this country. One wonders whether by the time the two universities proceeded to establish campus outside this country, they had established university campuses across our own country. I am not saying that we should not encourage foreign students to attend our universities but let us encourage those foreign students to come and attend our universities in our countries. That way, we will also be creating employment and promoting investment for people who build hostels around our universities. This amendment is informed by this experience."
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