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    "speaker_name": "Mrs. Noor",
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        "legal_name": "Sophia Abdi Noor",
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    "content": "After a long deliberation between the Departmental Committee on Labour and Social Welfare and the Ministry of Labour and Human Resource Development, we agreed on further amendments that we would like to move at a later stage. We looked at the Bill and realized that there are gaps that exist in the amendments themselves. One of the gaps that exist in the amendments is that we did not consider our Constitution the way it is. We did not look at the devolved systems that we have given ourselves. We also did not look at our counties. We propose to establish an operational body that will create other branches that will address issues at the county level. That is not in the amendments yet, but we will move that at a later stage. We also intend to move that the Authority should be given powers that will enable it overlook all institutions that do vocational training in this country so that we do not have piecemeal vocational trainings all over which do not address issues critically. We have vocational training and industrial training haphazardly all over the country. However, this Bill will address that and harmonise all of that. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir we are also looking at regulation of the composition of the body that will be created. In this Bill, there are people who will be appointed by employees, employers and other interested groups. When we provided for that, we did not look at their qualifications. The qualifications are missing. What is also missing is the kind of experience that is required of the people who will sit in the Authority. They are supposed to be creative enough so as to come up with innovations that will address issues of human resource, capacity building and skilled development in this country so that we can have a country that is productive. We need a country that will look at industrial issues seriously and give the capacity to our youth who we cry, now and then, that they do not have the proper skills and are unemployed. If we have industries that can absorb all these, we will have an able human resource and a good curriculum that will be able to address the gaps that exist today. We have five Government industrial training institutions in this country. We have one in Athi River on a 30-acre piece of land. There is an additional 12 acres from the EPZ and the Ministry is sorting out this matter. In Mombasa, we have an industrial training centre on a 26 acre piece of land, but 13 acres of that very important institution have been grabbed by a private developer and the case is with the KACC."
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