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    "id": 183290,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/183290/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kabando wa Kabando",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 31,
        "legal_name": "Kabando wa Kabando",
        "slug": "kabando-kabando"
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, with regard to the terms of service of employees of the youth polytechnics which are determined by their respective youth polytechnic management committees, these committees determine the vacancies and recruits all their employees without Government interference. However, to support the effort of the management committees, the Government has been providing a salary top-up grant to assist the management committees meet their obligations. Currently, 349 institutions are benefiting from the salary top-up grant from the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports. To supplement the instructors employed by the management committees, the Government, through the Public Service Commission, has been recruiting and deploying instructors in youth polytechnics. Instructors employed by the Public Service Commission enter the scheme of service for civil servants at different levels. So far, the Ministry, through the Public Service Commission, has recruited 600 instructors who have been deployed to 272 youth polytechnics and National Youth Service units countrywide. These instructors are employees of management committees, but the Ministry provides the top-up grants. The Ministry would like to recruit more qualified instructors to be posted to all youth polytechnics. This is in accordance with the Ministry's Strategic Plan which proposes that 1,000 instructors be recruited every year for five years beginning this financial year. The Ministry is still soliciting more funds to ensure that this is consolidated. Existing management committees, who have appointed instructors, have been advised to update skills in order for these people to be eligible for future appointment by the PSC. Our October 21, 2008 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 2831 Ministry is planning to improve instructor skills and upgrade their qualifications through comprehensive training in partnership with our development partners. So far, over 60 instructors and managers have been trained at the Kenya Technical Teachers College under the Kenya/Italy Debt for Development Programme. Some further 110 instructors have already started their training in the month of August, 2008, at the Kenya Technical Teachers College (KTTC), under a joint programme between the Government of Kenya, KDDP and the United Nations (UN)."
}