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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "our education to the things that matter for our people. We know that for a long period of time, technical education has been ignored because we are pursuing university degrees and papers at the expense of the quality of education. This is an area that I am extremely interested in as a person who has in the past, been a teacher in the university. It is something that usually bothers me because even when I had a short stint teaching in a high school, I used to wonder why students that leave high school and studied agriculture are unable to compete with their parents with simple things like farming. Why is it that the education they get in agriculture for four years cannot help them to do simple poultry or vegetable farming and make some money from it, even if they are form four dropouts? Why? That is the question we should always ask ourselves. How come after our children finish form four and do not get an opportunity to further their education, there is no small thing they take from high school that they can implement? It is because we have not put emphasis on technical education. This Bill that deals with vocational education training is timely. Madam Deputy Speaker, I wonder how the Committee is going to receive our recommendations. This is a question that I was asking myself. I am surprised that eight years down the line, this is the question that I am asking myself. Who reviews a Bill that has been developed by a Committee and it is in the Committee Stage? The Bill is from the Committee and it has come to the House for the Second Reading. After the Committee process, there will be amendments. I think that we need to relook this practice, because we are giving all these suggestions to the same Committee to review its own Bill for purposes of amendment. Of course, some of us are going to suggest certain amendments that should be included in this Bill. The first thing I would like to look at is the definition of what a vocational training and education is. This is not in the Bill itself. You understand what Sen. Wetangula said. To define it in one way is to exclude something in many other ways. The Bill says that vocational education and training means vocational and training programs imparted to a trainee in a vocational education and training center. In other words, it says nothing about the vocational training itself. In my opinion, there is something important about the definition, and it starts with the Constitution. For it to be a level of education that is administered by county governments, I think it is important to locate its place in the Constitution. In paragraph 9 of Part Two of the Fourth Schedule, the Constitution defines the functions of county governments to include pre- primary education, village polytechnics, homecraft centers and childcare facilities are functions of county governments. For it to be a function of county governments, we must locate the definition of a vocational institution to be part of what was anticipated to be a village polytechnic. In the definition itself, we should be able to find a definition that says vocational training includes but not limited to as defined in the Constitution as village polytechnic and we can add other definition that we have seen in other very important journals and reports."
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