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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Omogeni",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Erick Okong'o Mogeni",
        "slug": "erick-okongo-mogeni"
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    "content": "Thank you. Madam Deputy Speaker, I sat in the Mediation Committee that looked into the ECD Bill and we had a long debate on this. Eventually, we said TSC is the best body that can be entrusted with looking at standards of anybody who is providing training on education matters. The PSC does not have the proper expertise, even the capacity, as I am being informed by my neighbour here. I hope the Committee will reconsider that matter. The other thing I wanted to say is that I wish our youth could go to the interviews and look at the global market now in terms of people wanting to migrate from this country. Nobody is looking for people with white collar training, lawyers, people with bachelor of arts or PhD holders. This is not the priority for people who want to migrate to the west where there are job opportunities. They are looking at people who have the technical knowledge. Madam Deputy Speaker if you go to the website of Australia, they are looking for plumbers. That is their priority. Our children should know that even if you do not have a degree, you can still be an achiever. If we want to open up the international market to our youth, they should be trained in these technical jobs like plumbers and electricians, then you can move to the outside market where you will earn in the same manner like a lawyer. Once you move out of this country, it does not matter whether you have a diploma and the other person has a degree; you will earn the same money. If it is US$10 per hour, the lawyer and the plumber will earn the same amount. I want to encourage our youth to go to the website and see the massive opportunities that are there for them to migrate to the developed countries out there. Once they attain this training, they have this diploma, they do not need to look at the local market. There are a lot of opportunities out there in Australia, Europe and all over. The people who run this kind of industry in the USA are Mexicans. America does not have enough plumbers so the Mexicans keep moving to America to assist them in doing plumbing jobs. Somebody said that if you close that border from Mexico to America there will be no plumbers to work in houses in America. With those remarks, I support this Bill and hope that going forward the committee will be able to look at some of the observations that have been made by these Senators. This is a very good Bill. It is a game changer and I hope that once it is in place we will attract more of our youth to go to these VTCs so that we create more job opportunities for our young people. I support, Madam Deputy Speaker."
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