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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ichung’wah",
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. As has been clarified by former Chair of the Committee on Education and Research, indeed, I can confirm the UoN has a Recurrent Expenditure budget of Kshs11.3 billion. Kenyatta University has Kshs10.6 billion allocated for Recurrent Expenditure and Moi University has Kshs8.228 billion. More importantly, there is an issue that has been raised on the cost. Of course, the Leader of the Minority Party has to be very protective of UNES since he worked there. The former Chair of the Education Committee, Hon. Sabina Chege, has just confirmed that, indeed, other than not just declaring A-In-A by public universities, the PAC and PIC, specially the PIC, and I can tell you this having been the Vice-Chair of the PIC in the 11th Parliament, KU and JKUAT are universities that have been brought to this Parliament and reports adopted on questions on how they utilise the money they raise from Module II programmes. Kenyatta University is investing in campuses that are making losses in Arusha. The JKUAT was investing in lossmaking campuses in Rwanda while our students are not able to access university education. The last point is on what Hon. Kolosh raised on why technical training institutes are teaching business and community development courses. It is precisely the reason we are allocating money today. They have been teaching business and community development courses because they have not had teachers to teach technical courses. That is why we are now allocating Kshs2 billion to get teachers to teach technical courses. That is why we need to reallocate this money from universities that have access to more money to technical colleges."
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