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    "id": 1439686,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Westlands, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Tim Wanyonyi",
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    "content": "at a law firm, you can also look for opportunities elsewhere, including going to the Judiciary, so that you have a wide spectrum of learning and understanding of things. The Bill also provides for remuneration. Recently, we saw the doctors on strike talking about the payment of the interns. In my view, once the Public Service internship program is given a legal framework, money should be appropriated to it so that when interns are placed somewhere, they are given some stipend that will keep them going. The programme should last for a sufficient period of time so that those people can learn something on the job. Every time people graduate from college, there should be a way for them to learn. This is a very good Bill that we should all support. You have all seen how the TSC treated teachers who were agitating for their rights. There has been no job security such that when they come out and express themselves, they face frustrations. Junior Secondary School (JSS) is facing teething problem that we need to address. You cannot come up with a punitive measure of dismissing intern teachers without giving them an opportunity to be heard. If people go to the streets, it means that something is wrong. Once we have a law in place to protect those people, we will bring order in the market and our students and young people will have opportunity to express themselves. Hon. Temporary Speaker, Kenya trains people in many skills and then exports them. The Government programme of looking for opportunities abroad to absorb our young people is a defeatist one. Why should we train people and give them away? We should train and retain them so that we expand our economy. When a Government is in power, it should come up with policies that will generate and create wealth, as well as expand the economy to absorb all Kenyans that are graduating from colleges. We should not have this brain drain. Our people are trained, but they are used by somebody else. The Government is losing because it has invested heavily in our education system and yet, it allows them to go. It should look for a way of absorbing the young people. They should come up with policies that will encourage investors into our country to expand industries so that they can employ the youth instead of them going abroad. For those who go abroad, the Government has no capacity to follow-up and know what is happening to them. That is why, sometimes, they are mistreated and many bad things happen to them. I believe we can find home grown solutions which will be cured by this legislation that Hon. Lesuuda has brought."
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