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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherargei",
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for this opportunity. I congratulate Sen. Chebeni for this Statement. I will only touch on two issues. To be a country with reforms in education, we should be accrediting courses that are relevant in the market. What happens is that some courses are accredited, but they are not relevant in the current economic situation, or do not consider changes in the societies’ culture and values. It is important that the CUE comes up with an innovative way. We should insist on ICT, entrepreneurship and life skills. There are people trained in some courses, but they cannot even fix a bulb. When someone is an electrical engineer, they should be able to fix a bulb. I am not being blasphemous, but there are engineers with degrees who cannot even fix a bulb. Secondly, the Ministry of Education is suffering from leadership crisis because we can see the chaos at the Ministry. The other day, the Cabinet Secretary, Prof. Magoha, was insulting some senior officials in Uasin Gishu County. That shows a leadership crisis. When such issues come up, it shows we have a vacuum and leadership crisis in the education sector in this country. I call upon the President to relook at the running of the education sector because it is critical in terms of ensuring that we give opportunity to many young people. Finally, as we discuss this, we must look at the future of the many young people we have in this country. If you go by the 2019 Census, we have quite a youthful population. Most of them cannot get blue or white collar jobs. We must see how to help them. As I talk, close to 15 million young people are either uneducated or semi- educated. How do we factor in that when coming up with programmes that benefit the young people? I hope that the education sector, which is suffering from a leadership crisis The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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