{"count":1608389,"next":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/?format=json&page=148052","previous":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/?format=json&page=148050","results":[{"id":1498702,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1498702/?format=json","text_counter":296,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Mr Julius Migos Ogamba","speaker_title":"The Cabinet Secretary for Education","speaker":null,"content":" Thank you, Hon. Speaker. On the issue of the University of Nairobi, Department of Dental Sciences, we requested for a clarification, and we got a report about what they are doing vis-à-vis the challenges they had when the two professors left and what steps they are taking to ensure continuity in the learning. With respect to the particular equipment and laboratories that are dilapidated, this is a replica of everything that is going on in almost all the universities. However, I can assure you that we will make a point of bringing our universities back to what they used to be. I would like to answer the Question from Hon. Kaguchia generally because I do not want to go into the specifics. This is because, as we speak, we are taking action on the issue of governance in universities. Governance is a big challenge that has bedevilled almost all the 23 public universities. We keep saying in English that they are 'technically insolvent,' but I think they are insolvent. So, we need to ensure that, as we deal with the budget, we also deal with governance because you can give an institution money, but if the governance is wanting, that money will not do what it is supposed to do. So, we are doing something about it. We are currently doing something about the challenges that the University of Nairobi is facing. I do not want to go into the details because it is alive and active. Even as we speak, a team is working on it. But concerning what we will do to deal with the issues relating to incomplete projects in various universities, we have requested and directed that an audit be done for every university on the stalled projects and the costs required for them to be completed. We have also directed that no new projects should be started until those that are stalled are sorted out. So, we are doing something; we are cleaning up the space. We will also come back here frequently because issues relating to governance also affect communities. So, we will be coming back to get your support. As we implement those policies, some of them will be bitter. We will need"},{"id":1498703,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1498703/?format=json","text_counter":297,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Mr Julius Migos Ogamba","speaker_title":"The Cabinet Secretary for Education","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":1498704,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1498704/?format=json","text_counter":298,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Mr Julius Migos Ogamba","speaker_title":"The Cabinet Secretary for Education","speaker":null,"content":"your support to implement the policies. All of us are affected by what is happening in the universities, and it is time that we put all cards on deck so that we can solve the problems. Thank you. I submit."},{"id":1498705,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1498705/?format=json","text_counter":299,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Speaker","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"Hon. Wangwe."},{"id":1498706,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1498706/?format=json","text_counter":300,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Navakholo, ODM","speaker_title":"Hon. Emmanuel Wangwe","speaker":null,"content":" Thank you, Hon. Speaker. This is a House of Records. When a Cabinet Secretary responds in the affirmative, it means the situation is wanting. The Cabinet Secretary has just confirmed that 23 of our universities are insolvent. What does that mean? It means the universities are unable to pay or own debts. In terms of understanding the financials, they are supposed to be given two directions: either a natural death or liquidation. What route has the Cabinet Secretary initiated to settle our insolvent institutions?"},{"id":1498707,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1498707/?format=json","text_counter":301,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Speaker","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"Hon. (Dr) Nyikal."},{"id":1498708,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1498708/?format=json","text_counter":302,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Seme, ODM","speaker_title":"Hon. (Dr) James Nyikal","speaker":null,"content":" Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I would like to bring to the attention of the Cabinet Secretary that, as the law stands, now with respect to the Commission for University Education (CUE), the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Council (KMPDC) does not monitor the training of medical and dental students. That work is left to CUE, but I am not too sure whether it has the capacity. How, then, can they pick out the problems in advance, as raised by Hon. Mathenge, if KMPDC is not doing what was there formerly before the University Act came into being? That was the practice!"},{"id":1498709,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1498709/?format=json","text_counter":303,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Speaker","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"I want to close this matter. Hon. Ngogoyo."},{"id":1498710,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1498710/?format=json","text_counter":304,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Kajiado North, UDA","speaker_title":"Hon. Onesmus Ngogoyo","speaker":null,"content":" Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Mine is brief. Cabinet Secretary, you are aware that TSC has confirmed that they lack science teachers in this country. What are you doing because the Ministry owns the colleges? What are you doing to make sure that we have science teachers? In my constituency, there is no deployment of any teacher for science lessons in JSS. All the teachers we have are for art lessons. What are you doing to ensure that there are science teachers in schools in the present and the future? It is clear that there is a deficit, and TSC has said that it has none to deploy."},{"id":1498711,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1498711/?format=json","text_counter":305,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Speaker","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"Cabinet Secretary."}]}