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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Koech",
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        "legal_name": "David Kibet Koech",
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    "content": "Ministries. The first one is the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology to look into the many issues that touch on the Ministry. Other issues touch specifically on the Kenyatta University. I want to appreciate at this point the efforts which have already been put in place by Kenyatta University. I am aware that the perimeter wall that we proposed to be put in place is already in place. In terms of security, I can confirm here that the university has put in place structures to ensure that we have a chief security officer, who is an employee of the university and somebody with good credentials. I want to believe that this is the way to go. Our encouragement to the rest of the universities is that they should copy from the same and do something, so that we can avoid similar occurrences. The other Ministry which is key is the Ministry of State for Provincial Administration and Internal Security. Looking at the events, there were a lot of efforts on 29th, and at 3.00 p.m., the area District Commissioner was in a security meeting at the Kenyatta University. There were all indications that something was amiss. Surprisingly, they reported to the university at 9.30 p.m. There is need to increase and empower, and if need be, as proposed by the Members, get a separate unit to be dealing with such cases. The Ministry of Lands should safeguard Kenyatta University land. This touches on many public institutions. Kenyatta University is not the only one. I do not believe that it is impossible to safeguard the land belonging to the university or any institution, whether a secondary or primary school, for the benefit of the Kenyan child. That should be the way to go. I am aware that we have the Committee on Implementation, but I do not wish that we keep loading it with issues about following the Government. It is one Government and we are the Kenyans. It is our wish that Ministries take seriously the recommendations made and act on them without necessarily waiting for any person to make follows ups. I want to state, therefore, that we may not have done everything that needed to be done, in terms of helping our universities. As a Committee, we want to promise to work continuously with the Ministries concerned, so that concerted effort is made to ensure that we keep on improving the situation and overcoming the challenges we face every day. I beg that we fully implement most of the recommendations we have made in this Report Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, lastly, allow me to sincerely thank the Members of my Committee for the support they gave me, and for availing themselves during our meetings to inquire into this matter. I also want to thank the Speaker, and the Clerk of the National Assembly, for facilitating this Committee to be able to conduct this very important investigation. I want to thank members of staff of Parliament; from the HANSARD Department, the Secretariat, and the Research Department, for the support they gave us. I want to use this opportunity to appeal to hon. Members of this House to adopt this Report without amendments. I beg to move."
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