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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kinoti",
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    "content": "I also want to thank the Departmental Committee on Labour and Social Welfare, which I am a Member of, led by the Chair and the Vice-Chair, who has just moved the Sessional Paper. What we did yesterday and what we have done today is of importance to this country. As we noted yesterday, some of the main resolutions that have moved this country forward have been based on Sessional Papers. One of the most popular has been Sessional Paper No.10, which was moved in this House by the late. Hon. Tom Mboya. Yesterday, we discussed the Sessional Paper on National Industrial Training. Today, we are discussing Sessional Paper No.3 on the productivity of Kenya. As I second this important Sessional Paper, I wish to make a few observations. First, I want to note that Kenya is really behind in terms of the productivity of our people. If this country is to move forward, that will depend on how we use our resources, especially the human resource. In the journey to developing Sessional Papers, and some of the resolutions that we pass in this House, we, as the Members of the Committee on Labour and Social Welfare have interacted with many people across the world. One of the issues that were a big problem was the two-thirds gender rule. The issue of gender being under our Committee, we interacted with some advisors from Norway on this issue. We asked them: “This country appears to have a very stable economy and a social structure and you have oil and the neighbouring countries are also very prosperous like Sweden, what is the difference between the two countries?” They said that Sweden does not have oil but they have been able to build a very strong Gross Domestic Product (GDP), because of just utilising their human resource really well, making them technically very competent people and developing companies like Nokia and so on. Out of that, I wish to note that if only we could empower our human resource to make it more efficient so that--- Currently the productivity level of our human resource is at 2.2. Countries like the United States of America (USA), Japan and so many others are well over 7. If we are at 2.2 and wish to grow our economy, it shows that we really have a lot to do. I wish to thank the Ministry of Labour, Social Security and Services for introducing this very important document in the House and tabling it in the National Assembly. I plead with my honourable colleagues that we approve this Sessional Paper, so that we can devise ways and means through which we can empower the human resource and ensure that our human resource, which is the most important and the strongest resource we have--- To us it means much more than the oil, land, infrastructure and everything else. I believe the core of our competence as Kenya is that we have a qualified human resource. That is why we are attracting a lot of admiration from all over the world. An example is Rwanda. Rwanda was a French speaking country just a few years ago, but now when so many Kenyans have moved there, they have admired our work ethics and they are moving towards adopting English as their official language; there are so many things that they have admired in Kenya. That means we should follow the same trend, especially in our public sector, to make sure that people employed by the Government are not just there to make money, but are there to deliver to Kenyans and to work in every minute for which they are paid. They are there to deliver on the main productivity business that they are given by the Government and the essence of performance contracting and so many other performance measures that make our people stand out as the Kenyans to build the Kenya we want. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to second and support the Sessional Paper No. 3 of 2013. 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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