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    "id": 575058,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/575058/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) (Dr.) Shaban",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Naomi Namsi Shaban",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I also stand up to add my voice to congratulate the Departmental Committee on Labour and Social Welfare on the Report on Sessional Paper No.3 of 2013 on the National Productivity Policy. Whereas it is very good for the Government to have a policy on this, I have a few concerns on the issues which have been affecting our country, where productivity is concerned. If you look at the productivity index, it is less than one and to be competitive globally, you require an index of, at least, five. That is of major concern. When we are ranked, you find that countries like South Africa are ahead of us and yet, most of the professionals that they use, considering that the country came from apartheid, are from other countries and, more so, from Kenya. We have had a major brain flight from here to those countries and they are benefitting from our people. This Policy Paper should have also gone ahead to look at ways and means of making sure that we do not just train, but we also retain our people and our human resource is retained here, so that we can make use of them. It is not a wonder that people who are so well- trained locally have ended up building the productivity of other nations. Those are the major challenges that we are facing. I believe that Kenya is now moving in the right economic trajectory. As we move in the right economic trajectory, we need to see our professionals well utilised. It is not a secret that Kenya is an agricultural based country and yet, the number of agriculturalists that we train is not enough. Even the few that we have, have been taking off. On the other hand, in the health sector, you cannot have a productive nation if you do not have healthy people. We have all our professionals and, more so, doctors and other medical 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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