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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "We need to learn from Germany. More than 51 per cent of their skilled labour are graduates from these tertiary institutions. Year after year, they ensure these institutions are properly funded and receive the necessary support from the various corporations. They continue to churn out technicians; people who are properly skilled and can be received by the various corporations and institutions because of how important a role they play in setting up the economy of that country. Their economy is a powerhouse because of these people; not white-collar jobs. That is why they have about 40 to 45 per cent only of white-collar trainees. They focus more than half of their training on technicians. I hope that when this Bill passes, we shall also continually fund and ensure that these institutions receive the requisite support. Madam Deputy Speaker, if you are follower of international politics, you do recall that at the height of his fight with China, President Trump tried to force the various American corporations that do business with China to manufacture locally. The corporations told him, “Mr. President, while we appreciate and would wish to give these jobs to locals to manufacture for us things such as phones and computers, tell us where we will find those skilled technicians and the volume that is needed?” They might be available, but not to the volume that would be expected for the economies of scale for a corporation as IBM, where one can get a million people, yet, these are readily available in countries such as China and Taiwan. I know for a fact that most of these people are not university graduates, but technicians who have come from such institutions in those regions. They have them in such abundance that many institutions will pitch tent here in our Republic because they know they can easily get skilled labour."
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