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    "id": 1098117,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "with the local knowledge that I was talking about and partner with local technicians who will generate new knowledge. Madam Temporary Speaker, there is a feeling and sometimes a very wrong one in this country that sometimes when something stays for too long, we somehow need to fix it. It is the kind of thinking that led people to go to a very good institution that we used to have here called the Kenya Polytechnic. It was an institution that used to provide very skilled technicians for the various institutions in this country. Companies like the East African Breweries Ltd. (EABL) used to pitch up tent there every year. They had a standing imprest knowing that in any graduating class with a diploma, the top ten students we will pick them and put them straight in the labour market. This is because they knew how well those people were. Somebody sat at Jogoo House and said no, they are not doing a good job. Let us convert it into a university now teaching business management and marketing. Madam Temporary Speaker, we need to protect institutions like KICD because you would know that the more an institution ages the better refined they become in the work that they do. Utalii College is one such example. If you travel to the Middle East and many of our colleagues do travel most of the time, the chances that any Kenyan you will meet managing a hotel was trained at Utalii College is almost 90 per cent, including even others who come from different parts of the world to come and just study in this world class institution. Yet you find people trying to say I think it has been bypassed by time and we need to change it and convert it into a university like we did with the rest of the institutions. We must protect these institutions that produce such people. How do you protect them? It is by ensuring that the curriculum is standardized so that it is developed. Anytime there is new knowledge coming, it is made to be part and parcel of that training. For this one of Part IV of the Bill, I concur and agree with the proposal that is being made by the Committee. Madam Temporary Speaker, finally is the issue of this board that they have created. It is an important one. I only wish they had gone further than the traditional way. Also, one of the things that we need to do as a Parliament, especially we that are lawmakers, is to move away from this standardized way of drafting our laws. It is known that anytime when you are creating a board, we have the cliché qualification that are set out; for example, one must be a holder of a degree and others. Let us also be creators of new knowledge. Let us specify and think better and say have a representation from religious groups. For example, if I was to create such a board in Kericho County where I come from, I will give a position to represent and you will allow the tea factories which are in abundance to have a nominee in that board. They are the ones who know the kind of skills that they need. They will ensure these institutions are training young people who can repair even these tea plucking machines that people are fighting instead of embracing and realizing that this is part of the change that we need. Madam Temporary Speaker, on that proposal, I still think we can do something better with it in terms of the composition of that board and specify who are the members- --"
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