{"id":574150,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/574150/?format=json","text_counter":279,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Nassir","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":2433,"legal_name":"Abdulswamad Sheriff Nassir","slug":"abdulswamad-sheriff-nassir"},"content":"Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I wish to support this Sessional Paper. However, I would like to give a point of information as a reminder to all of us. This Sessional Paper is dated 2013. Initially, it was tabled in December 2013 and then it was tabled again in March of 2014, whilst it is being debated at the end of July 2015. This Sessional Paper is meant to give an overview of industrial training and attachment which is very vital for employment, especially of the youth of this country. Let me give the history of industrial training in Kenya. In 1924, the colonial Government established the first Native Industrial Training Depot (NITD) at Kabete. The reason for its establishment was to absorb and rehabilitate the demobilized African soldiers who had returned from the First World War. This training helped in getting skilled labour, as much as skilled labour had been brought from India. But the labour that was there came from people who had been trained from that particular depot. This was for the “Lunatic Express” which is the Mombasa-Kisumu Railway line that was being built at that time. The law-making process for this Act was the Industrial Training Ordinance Act of May 1960. After Independence, it became the Industrial Training Act of 1971. An amendment to establish the National Industrial Training Council 2011 was made. Another 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."}