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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, as we think through this idea, let us agree on what institutions we are going to benchmark ourselves with. We must start off from a very strong point. Should we start from the training of trainers? Should we start by putting it somewhere temporarily? Training is not the building, but it is the people who will be trained and the people who train them. This is not something that has to wait until we have put up a building in some place. This is something that we can start almost immediately by hosting it in one of the selected institutions that can start this programme. As we think about this, we can even start the training of trainers. Those trainers can be trained in places where they can be benchmarked to be the best amongst the world. Mr. Temporary Speaker, in my opinion, one of the shortcomings we have as a country is thinking small. We think fairly small. One of the tasks of such an institution would be to encourage our people to think big. If you look at the building we are in today, the Kenyatta International Conference Centre (KICC), at its inception, it was supposed to be one of the tallest building in Africa. Thirty 30 years ago, somebody thought we needed a building like this in Kenya. If you look at the airport, when it was built, it was one of the biggest airports in Africa. Somebody thought 30 years from then that this is the kind of airport that we will need. Therefore, it is important for us to train people to think big. In the counties, for example, they can think about the issue of synergy creation. People are thinking about very big irrigation projects. They completely forget that they need power in their counties. What is to stop us from building a dam that can both produce power and also provide water for irrigation? Therefore, training is crucial if we want to have a paradigm shift. If we want not just to have a shift of governance, training is very crucial. If we want to have a shift of efficiency, we must learn to say what we are planning to teach. Therefore, the curriculum must involve things that we want to do and what we will never do. For example, how will the counties fight corruption? This should be part of the curriculum of this teaching. An anti-corruption curriculum is one that invests in shaming those who are corrupt all the way from school. Mr. Temporary Speaker, in support of this Motion, I also want to urge the mover to take into consideration when it comes to the implementation to follow up with the issues that we are talking about. It is not just a question of creation of an institution, but creation of an institution that will work and which will be of assistance to Kenyans. Mr. Temporary Speaker, when you look at the current crop of civil servants, you will realise that civil servants who have undergone training at the Kenya School of Government (KSG) are very different from those who did not actually go through the KSG. It would become inevitable that we, once again as both Houses of Parliament, think and revisit the level of education of those who we will be trained because we can also train un-trainable people."
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