{"count":1608389,"next":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/?format=json&page=148051","previous":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/?format=json&page=148049","results":[{"id":1498692,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1498692/?format=json","text_counter":286,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Kitui South, JP","speaker_title":"Hon. (Dr) Rachael Nyamai","speaker":{"id":13374,"legal_name":"Richard Ken Chonga Kiti","slug":"richard-ken-chonga-kiti"},"content":" Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me a chance to also joyride on this supplementary question session. I would like to ask the Cabinet Secretary whether he will assure this House that there will be no crisis in the Department of Dental Sciences. I have listened to him very carefully and noted that he was very careful when he was responding to this Question. There seems to be a problem of human power. There is only one professor in that Department, one lecturer who has resigned and one whose contract has come to an end. Can he assure this House that he will administratively ensure that students from the University of Nairobi will not be left without training for that very important course, which is a matter of life and death? This is because it is about teeth and the mouth, and this is about life. Dentistry is very important; we cannot play around with it because it is also part of the core medicine. Thank you, Hon. Speaker."},{"id":1498693,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1498693/?format=json","text_counter":287,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Speaker","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"The Leader of the Majority Party."},{"id":1498694,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1498694/?format=json","text_counter":288,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Kikuyu, UDA","speaker_title":"Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah","speaker":null,"content":" Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I will go straight to my question on university education. The Cabinet Secretary is aware that besides the issues that were being alluded to by Hon. Kaguchia regarding the University of Nairobi - and I repeat, 'The University of Nairobi'…"},{"id":1498695,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1498695/?format=json","text_counter":289,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Speaker","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"Yes, The University of Nairobi. Hon. Robert, you behave like you did not go to the University of Nairobi."},{"id":1498696,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1498696/?format=json","text_counter":290,"type":"scene","speaker_name":"","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"(Laughter)"},{"id":1498697,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1498697/?format=json","text_counter":291,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Speaker","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"Hon. Ichung’wah, go on!"},{"id":1498698,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1498698/?format=json","text_counter":292,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Kikuyu, UDA","speaker_title":"Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah","speaker":null,"content":" Hon. Speaker, on a light note, Hon. Robert Mbui attended one of the other universities named after individuals. As I was saying, the Cabinet Secretary is also aware that Moi University has been in a crisis for some time. We would like to hear what policy initiatives the Cabinet Secretary and the Ministry have put in place now that we have changed the funding model, and now that universities have almost adequate resources. I say 'almost' because this has just begun, but we are certain that they will have adequate resources now to run their programmes. However, the Question of governance"},{"id":1498699,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1498699/?format=json","text_counter":293,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Kikuyu, UDA","speaker_title":"Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah","speaker":null,"content":"The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."},{"id":1498700,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1498700/?format=json","text_counter":294,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Kikuyu, UDA","speaker_title":"Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah","speaker":null,"content":"in the universities remains a major challenge not just at the University of Nairobi and Moi University, but in almost all our public universities. If the Cabinet Secretary visits almost all our public universities, he will discover that they all have major stalled projects. Some include gates and guest houses built at the cost of hundreds of millions of shillings. I would like to hear what the Ministry and the Cabinet Secretary are doing in terms of policy changes to ensure that public universities do not spend public money that they get through the new funding model to invest in ‘white elephant’ mega projects that are never completed. They are always a conduit for the pilferage of public resources, especially now that they will definitely get more money. My Question is: What policy initiatives or interventions are you putting in place, as the new Cabinet Secretary in charge of Education, to specifically deal with that issue in our public universities? This is because if the lack of Exchequer releases to universities was a problem; the bigger problem would be how that Exchequer is expended once it gets to those universities. Visit those universities, and you will see what we are talking about. Whether you go to Moi University, the University of Nairobi, or Lower Kabete Campus, some projects have been left there since the ' Nyayo ' days. The situation is the same in the Kikuyu Campus of the University of Nairobi, Chuka University, Embu University and South Eastern University. There is no single university that does not have a stalled mega project. Those who sit in the Budget and Appropriations Committee will tell you the kind of lobbying that is usually there during the budget-making process to allocate resources to those universities. However, those projects never come to fruition and are never completed. Thank you, Hon. Speaker."},{"id":1498701,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1498701/?format=json","text_counter":295,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Speaker","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"Yes, Cabinet Secretary."}]}