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    "id": 449335,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Ombaka",
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        "legal_name": "Christine Oduor Ombaka",
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    "content": "a lot. It intends to standardize qualifications and certifications. People come with certificates from all over the world and some of them are not accredited. This has given room to a lot of cheating. People graduate from unrecognized colleges and universities and then when they come back home they are unable to get recognition, let alone get jobs. This is actually a waste of human resource. This supports the fact that there is need to harmonize all the certificates that people come with from whatever universities or colleges and so that nobody suffers because the colleges have not been recognized by the Kenya Government. It is important that when you spend so many years in school and you come with a certificate that is not recognized, it is like you have done nothing in your life. It is a waste of human resource. This Bill intends to ensure that whatever colleges people go to they are accredited and that the certificates that they give are honoured and respected by the Kenya Government. That will give a chance for those who have those certificates to be employed. It is well intended and therefore we will not accuse anybody for not qualifying from a recognized university. It is good to regulate colleges that keep springing up day and night. In Kenya there are many colleges that are in the streets. They do not look like colleges, but they are operating and people are graduating from those colleges behind the streets. They keep mushrooming all over the place. There is need to have that control. Once we control that then every college that has been initiated in this country will know what kind of standards are expected of them. Anybody who wants to start a college or offer whatever certificates must go through the system that is recognized so that the students from that college will also be recognized and easily employed. I support this Bill for the same reason that anybody who goes to school or college and wants to be employed and recognized as having done well in life needs his or her certificates recognized. Through this Bill, we will standardize the certificates that we need. We will also accredit colleges and ensure that no colleges offer fake degrees. This is a well intended Bill and I support it highly."
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