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    "speaker_name": "Embakasi West, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Mark Mwenje",
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        "legal_name": "George Theuri",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I thank the Hon. Chairman together with my colleagues in the Committee for a job well done. From the get-go, I want to just highlight the issue of education. When he talks about education, you realise that it empowers individuals. Education is all about economic growth and stability. Education is all about poverty reduction. It improves health, promotes equality, encourages civil participation, fosters peace and stability, and drives technology and scientific progress. In a nutshell, it sets the groundwork for a better life. That is the mandate that all those institutions that have been discussed by the Chairman are mandated to do for the great people of western region, Homa Bay, Kisumu, Siaya, Kisii and Nyamira. I want to mention TVETs because they will play a key role in providing practical skills. As you have noticed from the Report, those TVETs have been facing numerous challenges. There is this negative perception that at times we found out there, where people think that TVETs are inferior institutions. No! Those institutions offer meaningful skills to our youth. We can use the skills from day to day. I have realised that getting a good carpenter, electrician or plumber is a big problem nowadays. Those are institutions that should assist us with such professionals. We must fight such vices because if there is a negative perception, then there will be less funding and support for those institutions. We have noticed that there is inadequate infrastructure. As the Chairman pointed out, there are un-qualified instructors. As a Member of Parliament from Nairobi, I would like to say from the get-go that I represent a constituency that has over 400,000 people. There are five constituencies that were split from the greater Embakasi Constituency. But if you count part of Kasarani Constituency, then there are six. If you look at the original five ‘Embakasis’, only one has one of those institutions that we are talking about, a Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET). The rest do not have. Embakasi West, Embakasi Central, Embakasi East and Embakasi South all rely on one institution that is in Embakasi North. We know the importance of those institutions. And from the get-go, we must distribute that national cake equally, even here in Nairobi, so that we can educate our young people. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I will now focus on the main issues that have been raised, although I will try and avoid some of them. The first one is poor funding to those institutions. We have many stalled projects. When we visited some of those institutions, including Rongo University, we noticed that there were projects worth Ksh1.2 billion. Monies that were The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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