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    "id": 1098077,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Omogeni",
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        "legal_name": "Erick Okong'o Mogeni",
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    "content": "On the other hand, a public toilet has been allocated Kshs8.5 million. Just imagine! That is what our MCAs are doing. A sum of Kshs8.5 million to build a toilet and Kshs1.5 million to improve infrastructure in a hospital. It is sad. I wish that money can be put in buying equipment like x-ray machines in our hospitals. If you ask people who have homes, Kshs8.5 million is a fully fledged house. We must continue to be the champions of devolution. Once this law is passed, the beauty is that counties will now be forced to ensure they budget money to implement what is contained in this Bill. Talking about talent, there is a friend of mine called Mr. Reuben Omwoyo in a market in Kijauri, Nyamira County. He is a motor cyclist who got an accident in 2019 and is unable to walk. From his garage and without any training, he has modified his motor cycle and changed it from a two to a three-wheel machine and now moves around in the county. That is the king of talent we have in this country that we want to improve by emphasizing on VTCs In terms of management, I agree with the Senators who have spoken before me that we need to put standards. I do not like what is in Clause 21. We are so much used to councils such that when you mention Board of Governors (BoG), it is like you are talking about the Council of Governors (CoG). Why can we not call it Board of Management (BoM)? I persuade the Committee to consider an amendment to Clause 21 and say BoM instead of BoG. These appointments should also be merit based because we do not want cronyism. If you give these powers to a CECM, they will just be directed by the governor to pick the cronies of a governor. Let us have a process that is merit based. We have so many court decisions now that lay emphasis on public participation and merit-based approach on the appointing people to board of management. So, I hope the Committee will consider this amendment to Article 21and then insist on merit-based appointment. On Clause 6, I have already mentioned the need. Maybe we need to emphasize that county governments will ensure all VTCs have modern machines that will assist in training our youth. We do not want to leave it as an open cheque system because governors will never give priority to such things, if there are no opportunities to be converted to billionaires as Sen. Wetangula said. Regarding accreditation of the trainers, I do not know whether it will be a good idea to bring in the Teachers Service Commission (TSC). I do not know but what will be the qualification of the people who will do the training in these VTCs? In Clause 7, I thought it would be wise if we said they should be accredited with TSC the way we have done with ECD. That way, we will not have every Tom, Dick and Harry coming in and saying they are trainers. These things can happen. If you do not provide proper standards in our legislation, we are opening it up for abuse. I hope the Committee will give this obligation to---"
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