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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Gichigi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Samuel Kamunye Gichigi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I also rise to support and seek approval of this policy. It is a tragedy in this country that many years after we gained our Independence, we have not had a comprehensive policy on industrial training. This is the first time that it is coming. That is why we need to look into it and probably approve it very fast. It is also very bad that it has been with us since 2013 and we have not approved it. There is a trend that is arising in this House, where we come up with laws before the policy is enacted. We now have a neat Act, but we do not have a policy on it. We need to recognise that Kenyans have potential for socio-economic development. This lies with the Kenyan people. Our people have the potential for creativity. We need to push for a serious regime of work ethics as well as entrepreneurship. This country has invested heavily in human capital development through formal and regular education in terms of primary, secondary and university. But there is a major gap when it comes to industrial attachment. We need to seek a solution to the problem that we have where people go to university and other colleges but, when you put them in a situation of work, they take a long time before they gain the necessary skills to become properly productive. I know we will be dealing with the policy on productivity, but if Kenya is at 0.84 per cent productivity while a country like America is at 12 per cent, one of the major causes of that problem is lack of industrial training for our people. In all the jobs that are being advertised in newspapers and elsewhere, people are required to have experience. This is a major roadblock for people who are coming from normal learning institutions. When we come up with this policy that is making it easy for the industry to accommodate school leavers in industrial training, the issue of experience will be compensated with industrial training. In the education sector teachers undergo teaching practice and in the legal sector, there is pupilage and the moot court concept. Those professions prepare their graduates for the real world The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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