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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding two million shillings or imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to both.” The amendment seeks to do three things. One is to confer the exclusive mandate to the Commission to recognise, license, approve or accredit any academic programmes including postgraduate degrees, honorary degrees, diplomas including postgraduate diplomas and other academic certificates offered at the university level. The second intention is to basically address what Eng. Gumbo was alluding to, namely, to provide that the Commission engages professional bodies and associations to carry out inspection of universities on its behalf. That is a point that has been of major concerns especially to professional bodies. You find universities and institutions of higher education that are offering training in engineering and others in accounting and yet they do not have the requisite people inspecting how well these trainings are being done. We are now incorporating these professional bodies such as the Engineers Board of Kenya to help inspect universities that are offering degree programmes and postgraduate diplomas on matters to do with engineering. If they are programmes to do with accounting, we have the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Kenya (ICPAK). We should also incorporate lawyers and all other professional bodies. The third intention of this amendment is to make it an offence for any person, who without the authority of the Commission purports to license, accredit, recognise, audit, inspect, index students or collect a fee or a charge from a university or a student. This is just to outlaw other busybodies across the country from purporting to collect fees and levies from universities and leave that exclusive mandate to the Commission."
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