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    "id": 575118,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/575118/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Prof.) Nyikal",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "James Nyikal",
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    "content": "many people and encourage self-employment. If we develop the skills of our youth and link them with industries as indicated here, we will go a long way. Yesterday, we discussed the issue of skills and attachment to industries. The issue of apprentice is extremely important. Real production is in the people who can go out and do something that can be sold, consumed or that will bring an income from within and outside, gaining us foreign exchange. Industrial training in this country has had a problem and we have killed all the middle level colleges. We have situations where you have a large number of engineers and few technicians but no technologists. In that situation, you will not get much going on. That has been addressed in this document. Again, I like the document because it looks at the problems, puts policy solutions and then strategies. This means that this is a document that you can implement immediately. That is extremely important for any document. I like the idea of getting an information system that gives proper data. Members of Parliament get many job applications. We get young people who got good scores, but do not even know how people get employed. They do not even know when advertisements are done. Somebody attained Mean Grade “B”, has been at home for two years and did not even know when the Kenya Medical Training Institute last advertised for training. That information should be available to policy makers. We must find a way of getting it out there. Another issue that I like about this policy is that most of our entrepreneurs, to a large extent, are middlemen. Very few people go into actual production hence there is very little employment. We need our people to invest in industries, create wealth and not just transmit wealth from one area to the other and accumulate it. That is extremely important. In conclusion, the policy again brings in the issue of planning. We know about our population growth, but we do not have a clear job creation plan to match that. This document brings that into existence. Job creation and employment is also wealth distribution."
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