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    "id": 1098095,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "governments to set up these tertiary institutions, there will be uniformity. You will not find that in one county one thing is considered to be a TIVET institute and while in another one, people can sit under a tree and say that it is their version of what they consider to be a TIVET institution. That aspect is important because we have learnt from what happened in the liberation of universities and high school education. You will recall that there was a time that the Ministry of Education, in trying to expand the presence of education centres in this Republic licensed so many schools that did not meet the basic requirements of what is supposed to be at school. If you walked in the Central Business District (CBD), at one point, there were high schools in the city. You would find that the first floor is a hotel selling chips and sausages, the second floor is a disco hall, and the third floor is a high school. This is the kind of scenario that Part Two of this Bill is avoiding. We should have uniformity of institutions. We should ensure that we inform and guide the standards so that when you set up an institution, it must pass certain checks across all the 47 counties. As a House of Parliament, we will perhaps get to a point we will try to see how overall we can develop the tools that are necessary for us to perform our work as an institution of oversight. We should set up an oversight team that is separate from us, as Members of Parliament (MPs). As it is right now, it just depends on our interaction with members of the public and the things that we hear across the board. We should be able to have an oversight unit within the institution that points out. There are so many pieces of legislation that we have passed on standards of various things to do with environment, education and the health sector. As human beings, we cannot remember all of them. If we were to have an institution charged with the mandate and responsibility of ensuring that certain standards are met in the various sectors of our economy, we will be able to point out and say this and that has not been met. That is why this Part II is extremely important. I appreciate its inclusion."
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