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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Okenyuri",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you for that consideration. I felt that I should speak to this matter because most of those instructors were young people. In my earlier life, before I came to the Senate, I passionately worked in the Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET) sector under the Office of the then Deputy President’s Strategy and Delivery Unit. Most of the work that we did was to encourage young people to join some of these institutions. There are many institutions such as youth polytechnics which have actually done very well. Look at the case of Mapimo Vocational Training Center in Kilifi County, I went there and saw the work that instructors were doing. When I listened to this Petition, I was very saddened and ceased to have the patience. When you look at the facts of this matter, the petitioners have even gone to court to seek redress. The court resolutions that were actually done in May, 2020 were not in any way giving them reprieve. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, if indeed education is the key, why do they make it expensive for young people who are already frustrated in this country? The County Government of Nyeri should pay these instructors who were only paid an amount of Kshs2,720 which is little money, if you ask me. These were 590 youth instructors who are serving this country passionately. For this matter to come to this House as a Petition to beg that they need to be paid, it is a really sad scenario."
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