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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mrs. Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, in supporting, I want to thank the Minister for bringing this Bill. I will be very brief. Like the other Members who have spoken, it is not enough to bring a Bill. There must be real change. We do not want the Kenya Institute of Administration (KIA) repackaged. We know that the KIA has done a reasonably good job under the circumstances that it has operated, but we are competing with world class and competing world class, we must provide cutting edge education to our civil servants. About three weeks ago, I was in a similar institute in France and I was extremely impressed by the level of education that they give on local administration. They have professors who have both intellectual skills through papers and practical training. So, we must find persons who combine both intellectual and practical skills, so that when they are training, they are training from experience. I know that many times in the past, we have had people who are training us about public policy formulation, but what they know is basically book knowledge. With book knowledge, they will not give you the intricacies. So, I am hoping that the Minister will be focusing on competing worldwide. We do not want to compete with Uganda or Tanzania. We must set our vision much higher. I also want to quote the same Steve Jobs of Apple Computers that the speaker before me talked about. He said: “Change in the world or those who will bring development, will be done through innovation”. So, I am hoping that one of the things that this institution will focus on is innovation. The world is becoming highly competitive. Because of climate change and the traditional things that the country has relied on and insecurity brought by Al Qaeda and Al Shabaab, we cannot with certainty say that we will always rely on tourism. So, we must diversify and we can diversify through innovation. Therefore, Kenyan students and civil servants must provide something more to the table. It is not enough to come and learn but you must go beyond that and tell us through your learning what you are bringing that is new to the Government. What are you bringing that is new that will help to develop the country? Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I know that Kenya copied the CDF from Zambia and perfected it that everybody now comes to emulate Kenya in what she is doing with the CDF. That is why I am not for the persons who say that the CDF is a thing of history because it is not in the Constitution. If you look at the current CDF, it is not also in the Constitution, but by subsidiary legislation, we can provide for it because people from northern Kenya and places like Suba are the ones who know the effect and impact of the CDF to students who were studying under trees and who now have modern"
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