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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr.",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I hope I can take a shorter period. Now that most Senators have spoken to the Bill and the contents of the Bill, I will skip that. Let me start by saying that I am not sure, but I am surprised that we are dealing with this now. We should have done it a little earlier. This is so urgent and important that I am tempted to say it is the solution to the so-called bottom-up approach, the contraption that I am so against. I see it with some political party. This is actually the solution of training young people to get skills. I will urge Sen. (Dr.) Milgo as I congratulate her for this Bill to visit an institution in Mbooni Constituency called Wambuli Technical Institute. I have been there. I am not quite sure whether the equipment I saw in that college is standard in the whole country because it should be. It is very modern equipment. They are making radios and antennas. The modern technology is in Mbooni Technical Institute. Madam Temporary Speaker, I would like the Committee, as we debate on this Bill, to confirm. It bothered me when Sen. Cheruiyot said they got a bakery because that is not what they are doing in Mbooni. As I said, they are building radios and battery cells. That should be the standard all over the country so that we can train people to do some of these things. Sen. Cheruiyot is right. I am not sure he was in our team when we went to Germany where we found young people. They are not in insisting. Their education is two-tier. You go to class, but you go to a technical institute. Here is a group of Senators. We walked into an institution where we found young people fixing a Bosch engine. They were 18 year old. No wonder the German machines are the best in the world. These young people were fixing them. Madam Temporary Speaker, we went to another technical institute and they were doing what I am calling the nano-technology where your aerial is stuck to your car. This is to the extent that, for example, if this road that we are doing on the Expressway if you need to make a payment, it will be on your windscreen. Every time you cross the road, you do not need the toll stations that I have seen being demolished in Gilgil that were just avenues for collecting money from poor Kenyans. Would it not be nice, Sen. (Dr.) Milgo, that out of these technical institutes you can have a pool of painters, carpenters and plumbers? I can tell you that we are getting our plumbers and carpenters from Machakos County because there are none in Makueni County. It is not possible. I think the ultimate goal of training these people is to find a pool of good painters, trainers and plumbers who can be used all over the country. Madam Temporary Speaker, can I shock you that in my forays together with the Speaker in Dubai, we discovered that we have only 23,000 Kenyans in United Arab Emirates (UAE) total, majority of whom are house helps? We have vendors in UAE for exporting househelps. It is not a bad thing, but it does not make sense at all to me that out of a country of so many young people, we are only exporting househelps. It is ridiculous."
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