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    "id": 343747,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Anyang’-Nyong’o",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Medical Services",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 193,
        "legal_name": "Peter Anyang' Nyong'o",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I just want to make a very short contribution in supporting the Technical and Vocational Training and Educational Bill. One of the things I want to comment my colleague for is for seeing technical and vocational training in what I call modern terms. For quite some time, we have thought of vocational training in terms of purely village polytechnics. We thought of village polytechnics as training people to involve themselves in some very basic works of being carpenters, weavers of baskets or tailors. We believed that in every village polytechnics, there were only a few trades of tailors, carpenters and informal trade. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, even countries that have moved from Third World into the Second World, Ireland, for example, adopted what they call one village; one product approach whereby, in every village, the population produced a product that could be used locally and exported for purposes of earning revenue. This has led tremendously to the development of small and medium enterprises with roots in the production systems of this country. Nothing crafted has an artificial village of polytechnic uniform across the country. What I am hoping that the Minister will do in developing a curriculum for this vocational training centres is to ensure that they become centres that produce people with knowledge and skills for industrialization. Centres that not only transforms raw material into manufactured products at small-scale level, but also for developing such skills that"
}