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    "id": 1243471,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1243471/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I want to thank the Cabinet Secretary for his appearance and the response he has brought to the House. This is a very important topic that we are discussing. While the conversation centred majorly on BMA, any prudent Cabinet Secretary will also plan for eventually what happens to these students after they are done with the college. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the question I want to ask the good Cabinet Secretary is if his Ministry has set any conditions precedent before any shipping line is allowed access into our waters to give them, perhaps, a target. I know he has said there is a policy and they make requests to them. Part of the conversation that we need to have in an increasingly growing, competitive, global market is that you need to have an agreement before. If they give the licenses annually or bi-annually, depending on the frequency, an agreement with the international shipping lines on the number of seafarers they can take. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, his response is adequate on the number of people that they are training. However, we do appreciate that this is a highly specialised skill where they can only secure jobs where there are waters and ports as has been observed. Second is in line with what Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale had previously asked; whether they, as a State Department, have got any proposals that they are giving to foreign governments, especially those that have a trade imbalance with Kenya on availability of these specialised skills for people to work in their ports. Is it part of what we signed? There are countries that we trade with that have a significant trade imbalance with Kenya, yet they are known to operate some of the world’s best and busiest ports. As part of trying to even out the trade imbalances that exist between our country and those specific countries, do the graduates of this BMA feature in that conversation as part of those that they sign on and secure jobs for?"
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