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    "id": 1087423,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Milgo",
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        "legal_name": "Milgo Alice Chepkorir",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, furthermore, with the recent Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), we realized that even the best of managers and institutions were beaten hands down because of the fact that they ended up having closures because of lack of the best ways to work around this. That is why we had lockdowns, things coming to a standstill, businesses and us as a House. We had to struggle for the first time to hold virtual meetings. I think right now we are getting used to iPads and computers, which is a skill obtained through these provisional training centers. For a long time even those other professors or doctors like me are lacking such very basic skills that are important when it comes to day-to-day management. Madam Temporary Speaker, looking forward, we are told as we are looking at COVID-19 that every 100 years, there is bound to be a calamity. Therefore, we must be developing skills that are futuristic to handle such disasters if they are going to come again. Furthermore, we have to encourage our politicians to develop or work around the skills that are going to spur economy, social and environmental demands so that we become self-reliant. There is also the issue of climate change that is calling for green economies. Green economies again are high skills demand. The reason why we must as a country and particularly, counties, encourage education is, we partly rely on ability to train, reskill and even empower people to take up the new jobs. Madam Temporary Speaker, the green economies are bound to create up to 24 million jobs that are skill intense. This is the reason why my Committee came up with this Bill to speak to issues of vocational education and training in our counties. These are what we used to call village polytechnics that were training crafts. They are domiciled in the counties and it is a very important function of the counties. 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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