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    "speaker_name": "Bomet Central, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ronald Tonui",
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        "legal_name": "Ronald Kiprotich Tonui",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for this opportunity to also support this important Bill. I also want to commend the Government for coming up with this Bill, so that we can strengthen KIRDI. At the moment, that is lacking. For it to become stronger on a piece of legislation, it needs to be a substantive law. This Bill will create KIRDI in a very substantive manner and it will become semi-autonomous. It will also be innovative in its operations. This is a good start. I know many Members have raised issues that have been left out such as ICT. I believe this is a good start and we can even deal with those issues at the Committee of the whole House Stage by moving some amendments. Research is very important. We must always do research, so that we can get better quality goods and items. It is important to do research so as to get new knowledge. I believe by ensuring that we have this institution under substantive law, they will engage in more research and get more knowledge and base their issues on factual situations and not assumptions. Therefore, we are strengthening research and creativity in this country by anchoring it in law. That is a positive thing. It is in the right direction. I support the Competency Based Curriculum (CBC) that we have recently adopted in the education sector, that is also trying to encourage research right from primary, secondary, and university levels. Creativity is very important. We have neglected to provide more funding towards research whether it is in KIRDI or elsewhere. We are providing very little funds. In universities there is no funds for research, universities are struggling despite the fact that they are important institutions. Funding is what we need to address ourselves to so that they are taken care of. I know the mainstream Government may not be prioritising funding these institutions or research activities. Under research, there is nothing edible. It could be better to fund projects which provide status and indirectly provide avenues for those in power to eat, but it is good to also invest in research and knowledge because without knowledge, we will not be heading in the right direction as a country. It is also good to ensure that we strengthen this institution so that we can have assurance of quality goods in the market which are well researched. I know of quality goods in the market which are well researched. I know once we strengthen this institution, it will ensure that it assists even the common man, the hustler, who is creative to come up with good quality items, so that when the common man comes up with a wheelbarrow, they can do a very good wheelbarrow which can even go uphill. This is a very good thing. Sometimes we dismiss these small beginnings and items like wheelbarrows, forgetting that we are unable to provide the exciting things which we talk of. If we do not wish to provide our people with small catches to enable them to walk like wheelbarrows, it could be good to provide them with cars. Who has stopped anyone from providing them with cars? Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, allow me to comment in that direction because previously, there were so many such comments before you arrived. I know you are very hard on Hon. Sankok, but he was only reacting to comments made before you arrived and it was not controlled. I think Hon. Osotsi talked about it at length and you know when you are not sitting and things did flow, that is where you missed and misinterpreted what Hon. Sankok was trying to bring out. When we have a strong institution like KIRDI, it will assist the small man, the hustler, who is hustling, to improve on the quality of the goods and small items like the wheelbarrow, so that when they are using it even in the market places to sell oranges and such, there should be something to cover like a shade. There should be a better way of improving on that wheelbarrow to make it adaptable to the kind of businesses our people are doing. The small beginning should not be The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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