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"content": "nurse or even a teacher from Nairobi to go to some of these areas, they do not want to go there. Some of these colleges are quite near Nairobi County and so on. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would support the Motion by saying that even teachers’ colleges and nursing training institutions must be built in every county. This will attempt to correct some of the impressions we have heard, like we have mentioned in this House that there are places where you will look for a professor in an entire county and you will never get one, whereas, if you go to some places in this Republic, in a village, there are too many. What does this tell you? It tells you that we do not need to discuss this topic for long; that we need to be serious to the extent that the Government needs to correct where things went wrong in the past. Mr. Speaker, I have a lot of hope in the agenda that the Jubilee Government has brought and I believe that if it is put in motion, some of these things can be corrected. We have a shortage of teachers in West Pokot, but somebody will ask me: “But you did quite well last year; where did the teachers come from?” We used some of the students who have just finished Form Four and university students who are not trained teachers. Suppose we had some of the training colleges nearby, we would have so many attending them, resulting in sufficient trained manpower that can be able to handle these things. Lastly, Mr. Speaker, Sir, we are now working on our Vision 2030. Employment of the youth of the Republic of Kenya is not going to be found anywhere else except in industrialization and in value addition. Which industrialization will you do in some counties that are already full, without land to plant and to plough, from which we can get some of these raw materials to add value to? I would say that we need to put emphasis on the right type of education as well, like in the agricultural sector. We need to add value to all the products we get from the maize or from our farms, including the animal products. This can only be found when we have the relevant kind of training scattered across the country and specifically stationed in every county, where the choice or niche product is supposed to come from so that we can be able to have people attaining this. You will notice that when we talk of value addition, you look at the water I have here; you will find that in some counties, water is imported all the way from some urbanized counties like Nairobi going to Samburu, yet we can also do the same thing there. When you ask yourself why, the reason is because of this issue we are talking about here; inequitable distribution of education. If people were educated, they would be able to learn these ideas, then tap into it, using the money they have. Some of these products can be produced anywhere else in the country. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I think Kenya will be developed if we put a lot of emphasis on education – the right quality of education – and the people who are taking their children outside the country for studies can only stop doing so if we come up with specialized colleges scattered across the country in some of the counties where the courses can do well. For example, if you look at the new university called Southern University College (SEUCO), they now have a program for dry land agriculture, of which you note that over 60 per cent of our land in Kenya is dry. If we can be able to enlarge that so that those colleges offering the same course are opened across the country, especially in areas where the technique is required, it will be good. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to second this Motion. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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