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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kimani Ichung'wah (",
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    "content": "critical role in training our workforce and ensuring that we have a well-trained labour force that can serve the people of Kenya. The Bill proposes to amend the Sexual Offences Act, 2006 to provide that a register of convicted sexual offenders shall be kept and maintained by the Chief Registrar of the Judiciary and not the Registrar of the High Court. After the passage of the Sexual Offences Act, there was a requirement to have a register of all sexual offenders convicted. Previously, it was kept by the Registrar of the High Court. Now it is being elevated to be kept by the Chief Registrar of the Judiciary. The reason being, there are people convicted by a lower court then they appeal all the way to the Supreme Court or Court of Appeal. Their record remains as convicts of sexual offenders while at some point, the conviction was discharged by the Court of Appeal, High Court or Supreme Court. With this register being kept at the apex court by the Chief Registrar of the Judiciary, there will be a clean record of convicted sexual offenders. We will not have a situation where someone has appealed, was released and his records continues to indicate he is still a sexual offender. The Bill proposes to amend the Universities Act of 2012 to provide for the declaration of technical universities under Section 25(1) of the Act, in respect to public institutions that were national polytechnics. It also proposes to amend Section 56(1). Before I go to that, there are former national polytechnics which have been converted to public universities. This amendment relates to such universities like the Technical University of Kenya (TUK) which was Kenya Polytechnic here in Nairobi. Also, the Technical University of Mombasa (TUM) which was Mombasa Polytechnic. So, we are amending the Universities Act for the declaration of these technical universities under Section 25(1) in respect of public institutions such as TUK and TUM, now that they are listed as technical universities. There is also a proposal to amend Section 56(1) to provide that the placement board shall be responsible of placing all students rather than only government sponsored students in universities and colleges. This proposal was published in the Executive Bill. I will be moving an amendment to it because the Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Services (KUCCPS) is charged with the responsibility of placing students in public universities. Therefore, there is no justification to have them placing students in private universities because they have their own ways of enlisting students. So, they do not need KUCCPS to place students for them. Since we have less than a minute to go, I will end there. I ask the Deputy Leader of the Majority Party to second when the House next sits since it is already 1.00 p.m.. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I beg to move."
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