Entry Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 373406,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/373406/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 309,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Mbarire",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 78,
        "legal_name": "Cecily Mutitu Mbarire",
        "slug": "cecily-mbarire"
    },
    "content": "I want to begin by saying that not many Kenyans, or even Members of Parliament, are aware that there is the Industrial Training Levy Fund (ITLF). The ITLF has been there for a very long time. I learnt of its existence in the last Parliament when one of the Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) directors asked me back at home whether I was aware that the Fund existed, and that they had been contributing to it but they had never taken people for training. Therefore, the first question that one needs to ask is; who manages this Fund? How are the beneficiaries identified? Before we took some names to them, there had not been any beneficiary from Runyenjes Constituency. I imagine that people in many other places do not know of the existence of this Fund. So, how is the Training Levy Fund managed? What is the accountability like as far as its management is concerned? Unlike the ITLF, I want to say that, having worked in the tourism sector, the Catering Levy Fund is used for training students in the hospitality industry at Kenya Utalii College. There is an hon. Member who said that no one knows what the CTLF is used for. I want to inform this House that actually, the biggest supporter of Kenya Utalii College is the CTLF. Therefore, we need to look for ways of how the young people can be identified for training and what happens to them after training. We have a problem in this country. We are very good at building the capacities of young people through skills development but we are not keen about taking care of them beyond the training. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I support this Motion because there is need for us to restructure this Fund in a way that it does not only train the young person but it goes further and facilitates the acquisition of capital, so that the trained young person can begin his own business. If we go that way, we will be making better use of the Fund. There were some issues raised by hon. Muchai, some of which made a lot of sense. It is important that the Mover of the Motion takes those issues on board, especially in terms of making it known that there are certain industrial players who do not state the exact number of employees they have as a way of avoiding remitting the correct amount of money in respect of this levy to the Fund."
}