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    "id": 1180890,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Siaya County, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Christine Ombaka",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker for giving me this opportunity. It is a very good Motion that we need to pass very fast. Kenya is quite developed to some extent. Already, if you look at what we offer in schools at the universities and colleges, you will see that we have programmes or curriculum on engineering. Engineering embraces quite a lot of what we need. In engineering you have the mechanical aspect among others. Already we have minds of young people who train as engineers. These other branches where automotive engineering is offered can also be introduced. The children we have today are already very creative. These are the children that are making vehicles using carton boxes, tins of Kimbo oil and from mud. You see them drive and pull them along. These are creative minds at such an early age. These minds grow up to the university level where they study engineering. We have people in this country who can be trained; we have young minds that are ready to be trained in this area so that we can actually manufacture vehicles. Look at the Jua Kali sector. When your car is broken and you do not know what to do, you rush it there for repairs and they do it. These are young minds who have learnt through the hard way. Some of them may not have reached very high levels in education, but they are already so skilled that they can repair your car without going to any university or any other training institution. I see a whole world of opportunities that we do have where we can come up with automotives that are being created and also assembled in this country. Opportunities are plenty because we have young minds that are trainable and we have what it takes to train young minds. This morning we had a meeting in the Departmental Committee on Education. Somebody from one of the universities in Canada presented to us the kind of courses they are offering in Mathematics. They are changing even the idea of teaching the kind of arithmetic that we learnt. It is skill-based, problem solving and really practical. This is the way to go. We are going to get more students running for such courses so that they actually can be engaged in The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for informationpurposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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