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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Thangw’a",
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    "content": "When we do amendments, we should remember that we are no longer have the 8- 4-4 system but Competency Based Curriculum (CBC). Of course, we are in a technological word, where anybody can learn anything, anywhere and at whatever time. If you tell counties that are sometimes led by politicians to regulate colleges, there will be no college. In my village, as Sen. M. Kajwang’ mentioned here today, we have so many saloons around. You will find small institutions teaching around four or five people. Why should I regulate somebody who makes lines on someone’s head? It is good to have a regulatory Bill that will regulate education. However, we should not limit the rights of those in the villages who are even taught in mother tongue. Why should I require people to teach in English or Kiswahili, yet all I want is a mechanic who will never speak to a vehicle? All he needs is the owner of the vehicle to tell them to look at it. If you do not have anybody who can speak the language, then get a translator. We need to train our people not on language but required content. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, what is required of counties and the national Government is to have examination bodies. You can train anywhere but if you want to be recognized, then go and do an exam. Private colleges in this country are doing the same. They train people on business studies and other education sectors but they have certain guilds that are not even Kenyan. They are examined outside Kenya. Once you get the certificate, you get a job. Why should we restrain our poor people in the villages who cannot even speak more than one language? We want them to be regulated and conform to a certain degree, yet all a person wants is to learn how to repair a vehicle, pick cherries or paint. I do not need a certificate when it comes to painting. I can only invite you to come and see what I have done before. These are the manual skills we are talking about. The moment you invite counties to invade people’s business and institutions, we are not going to get it right. I had to mention it because if it goes through, maybe Sen. M. Kajwang’ will become the Governor of Homa Bay, and I believe he will be a good one, but we do not know about the current one and the one after him. We should not give county governments some backdoor kind of execution of these institutions. The Bill is talking about things that we should have done before such as policy formulation of vocational education and training centres. I agree we should give them good names because those who go to those village institutions are people who went to primary schools but did not attain marks required to join high school. Some of them are class eight drop-outs. Sometimes they run away when they hear they are leaving a village primary school to a village institution. Some of them go to different regions so that they can tell their peers and friends that they attended a different college in a different area. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we can call them colleges but my problem is giving county governments power to be in every board of any institution, especially the private ones. Why would a county government have someone in my college as long as I am fulfilling all the set policies? Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I will bring one or two amendments when it comes to that. Education should be free and accessible to any and every person in this Republic."
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