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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Angwenyi",
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        "legal_name": "Jimmy Nuru Ondieki Angwenyi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me a chance to contribute to this important Bill. First, I want to thank the Mover of this Bill. If we enact this Bill, this country will move to the First World. What Singapore did to move from the Third World to the First World was to first train technicians and engineering technologists, people who did not get a degree but a diploma or certificate in special areas. They embarked on industrialization, having technical people who would carry out industrialisation projects. The same thing has been repeated in Malaysia and China in the last 30 years. They have trained technicians, people who can do hand work in the industrialisation process. If we pass this law and make sure it is implemented, instead of our youth trying to go to university and get a piece of paper, they will go to these practical training institutions and get a certificate or a diploma, and will gain knowledge to move forward our economic development. We have well-trained engineers, but they are white-collar professionals. They do not want to manually handle their work. They want to supervise work. The ones they are supervising are people who are not technically qualified. They are labourers who line up in major projects every morning to get casual work. If we had trained technicians being supervised by qualified engineers from universities, our work would be much better. Currently we have buildings falling down nearly every day, especially in Nairobi. The construction of those buildings has been supervised by the engineers. We have stalled lifts here in Parliament, whose installation was supervised by engineers. One of them in County Hall failed to work within three weeks, yet its installation was supervised by white-collar engineers. If it was a technician who had done that installation, maybe it could not have failed to work. 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."
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