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    "id": 1098088,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1098088/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Nyamunga",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 738,
        "legal_name": "Rose Nyamunga Ogendo",
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    "content": "Madam Deputy Speaker, every time I step in my home in the village, I will definitely need a plumber, a mason or an electrician. There is no day, I will go over the weekend and not miss to look for one of them. However, in my village, I will be only be looking for three people. There is one plumber, one electrician and one mason. This is because many of our students do not want to be trained. They think that it is not good enough for them yet these three people I have mentioned have homes which they run, they have permanent houses, and their children are going to school. They do not have degree courses, but they have the technical skills which are helping them. As a nation, we should bring ourselves to a level that we accept that we can move. Any student who may not get a grade A, a B, C- or D can start from wherever they are and move forward, and still achieve their goals. I think we should stop stereotyping and putting too much emphasis on white collar jobs because right now, it is taking us nowhere. Madam Deputy Speaker, in Kenya, we are very rich in culture. In our TIVETs, we can develop the instruments for culture like music. We have our children who have great talent that may not be accommodated at the university level. We should be able to bring everybody on board in our TIVETs and village polytechnics. In the type of education that we have now, there is graduation. After Class Eight, you graduate to Form One. After that, these children should be able to graduate so that they do not stop at Form Four. If all of us stop at Form Four, then we need to graduate to some technical college, a diploma or higher diploma programme. That way, we will help our system and our intellectual level of upgrading our students so that we do not stop at Class Eight or Form Four. If we stop there, somebody who has just done Form Four or Class Eight are almost the same. However, if you give them a technical training or upgrade them, you give them some work to do and some income. I have already mentioned that there are many people looking for young people to work. Many Senators have mentioned that many countries are looking for technically trained people. We should come back to the basics to make sure that we show by example that even our own children can go to these technical colleges or village polytechnics. That is the only way."
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