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    "content": "to other areas where they can interact so that they learn more. We need to do more with regard to our universities. We have students who are not skilled or knowledgeable because of the education that has been introduced today which requires somebody to memorise. That is the examination oriented education. We need to introduce technical education in our planning so that graduates finishing at different levels can advance. We should have more polytechnics in our counties so that those who do not make it to universities can be useful. Somebody talked about Korea where I have been with my Committee of Education, Information and Technology. We realized that technical education there is very important more than university education. They respect polytechnics more than universities. If our youth were exposed to technical education, we would have more people saving others from unemployment. As others have said, agriculture is the key industry in our country. We need to base our industries on agriculture. Agro-based industries should be established. We can even establish coffee industries like the ones in India. That is not very difficult. That is the planning we want so that as soon as we have our students completing their studies, they can set up various cottage industries, for example, in Keiyo Valley which would be based on cotton. We can also have sisal cottage industries and some dealing with clay, for instance, in Kisii. We can have people trading in various technical institutions. We need to find ourselves the sources of this money. Where do we get the money from? We are being told that there is no money to pay teachers. These teachers have trained and yet there is a shortage of teachers. The planners are saying that we should divert that money to buy laptops. That is okay but who will teach the pupils about laptops and where do we get the teachers? The lack of the planning aspect is what may lead us to the very high unemployment rates of youth in Kenya. Those are the areas we should address ourselves to. I oppose."
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