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    "id": 196999,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Nyammo",
    "speaker_title": "The Member for Tetu",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Francis Thombe Nyammo",
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you for giving me this chance to correct an impression that has been created by newspapers that I am no longer in this House. I represent the commonwealth of Tetu, and I would like to take this early opportunity to thank them for electing me to represent them in this Tenth Parliament. Allow me to congratulate the Speaker on his election as the Speaker of this National Assembly. From what we have seen from his rulings, we have a lot of hope. We would like to remind him that the destiny of this National Assembly and, indeed of the country, is in his hands. We implore him to continue making the kind of rulings he has made so far. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to acknowledge and appreciate the Address by the President during the State Opening of this National Assembly. It is a Speech that is comprehensive, ambitious and stipulates a number of pieces of legislation that will come to this House. Even as we wait for those pieces of legislation, one cannot help but turn to the whipping boy called the Ministry of Education. We have heard a lot of explanations about the fiasco that was the recent Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examination. The whole country is posing a question to the Ministry of Education, taking into account that we have the free primary and secondary education. The question posed is, education for what? For a long time, we have looked at numbers at the expense of quality. We have ignored technical education. It is time for this country to sit back and take audit of the existing skills in the country. There is no point of us talking about Vision 2030. Vision 2030 can only be driven by people who have education, relevant skills and have the right attitude. I am not so sure that our current education system, as it is, addresses these issues. It addresses numbers. We need to ask, what skills do we have? It does not make sense to continue telling institutions of higher learning to give us manpower who are actually misfits in the economy; manpower which is not employable. Those are people who come from institutions of higher learning and universities and are employable. We must pose the following questions: Why is there that disconnect? Why do we continue churning out students from our institutions of higher learning and they are not employed? Is our education system in tandem with the employers? Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, leaving that aside, let us talk about the recent examinations. It is a concern because we know that, as a country, we have provided well-qualified manpower to the rest of the world. If we put question marks on our certification process, we will be endangering the existing students and professionals who are outside there serving wherever they are. Their qualifications will be queried. It is important that the assurance given by the Minister for Education be taken seriously. Examination leakages and issuance of wrong results should never recur any more. Unless we do that, we are going to continue producing misfits from our educational institutions. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I do not have much time, but I want to reiterate to the people that I represent; that is the people of Tetu \"commonwealth,\" yes! I am in Parliament! I am not lost as implied by a certain newspaper the other day. I would like to confirm that I will not let them down. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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