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    "id": 1439703,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nyatike, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Tom Odege",
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    "content": "fully trained professional. You get the professionalism when you get an opportunity to do the job and be trained on it. If we deny our youths an opportunity to get that from the Public Service, we are killing this nation and denying them an opportunity to be better professionals. To make it worse, when we are advertising for jobs, we ask those new professionals for experience. Where do we expect them to get it if we do not give them opportunities to access facilities in the Public Service for their training and exposure to be better professionals in this country? Before we go to monetary issues, we should ensure that we avail the opportunities for all professionals to access training in the Public Service. If it is possible, we should make it mandatory, so that we do not discriminate others not to get such kind of an opportunity to access services. On monetary issues, when we talk about the work done, that opportunity can be given room to be negotiated. Every professional can get an opportunity to negotiate it. We should give the Public Service Commission, the Parliamentary Service Commission and the National Police Service Commission opportunities to come up with jobs that are worth those interns. Then, we can pay them. What is happening currently in the country is very unfortunate. We have reached a level where we see workers going on strike. But now interns go on strike. This means that we have failed to fix an issue which is ailing our country. That is why interns go to the streets to demand for their rights because we are sitting on them. There are some professionals in this country who are unable to come out and air their grievances. They are suffering in silence. Let us talk about accountants and agricultural officers who are silent professionals. They are also not comfortable, and because they do not have an opportunity to come together and air their views, we think they are comfortable because they are not on the streets the way the Junior Secondary School interns were. If we are fixing the issue of interns, let us make it broader and ensure that everybody who has trained in this country is given an opportunity and fairness wherever he or she does his or her practice."
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