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    "id": 574151,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nassir",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2433,
        "legal_name": "Abdulswamad Sheriff Nassir",
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    "content": "amendment to establish the National Industrial Training Authority and the National Industrial Training Board was made. Let us remind ourselves on the pace at which we need to be moving as a country. The First World War was fought between July 1914 and November 1918. Thereafter, there were a series of treaties that were signed. The last one was that of 24th July, 1923. When it had already been seen that there was not going to be a level of war anymore, soldiers had to be demobilised. I am taking us back into history to see what we are capable of learning. By 1924, we already had a centre for industrial training established in this country. Today, we fast forward our situation. At that time, there was the “Lunatic Express” that was being built. Today, we have the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) line being built. We have ports that are being built. We have oil that has been discovered in Turkana which is going to need labour. At that particular time, the country was at war. We were fighting someone else’s war and our soldiers had to be demobilised. Today, we are fighting an internal war against drug abuse, alcohol abuse and the bigger war against unemployment. The rate at which we are moving is worrying. It is now that we are discussing sessional papers that we should have discussed long ago. We are trashing them giving them 60 minutes for debate so that the ministry in charge can come up with proper policies and financial frameworks to say that this is what they need in their budgets. Today, we are discussing sessional papers when the budget for the Financial Year 2015/2016 has already passed. So, if there is anything to implement whatever is being done here, we are looking at the budget of the Financial Year 2016/2017. This is the pace at which we are moving as a country. So, I implore those in the Executive not to just talk about this. I always say this and I am on record of saying this; that we-- -"
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