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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Tong’i",
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        "legal_name": "Richard Nyagaka Tongi",
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    "content": "Secondly, this will support the Government to achieve its Vision 2030. How are we going to achieve this vision if 90 per cent of our population is ignored? This is 90 per cent of the population that we depend on yet we ignore it. It may even be 99 per cent because my little knowledge of statistics could be wrong but it says that we only have 1 per of engineers in Kenya. Of the population of Kenya, not even 1 per cent is engineers. How can a small percentage be depended upon by everybody else in the country to ensure that we are going to get what we need to drive this economy to what it should be, the middle income economy of this country? Therefore, this body will come in handy to ensure that this happens. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, thirdly, which is also very important, is that this body will ensure that we address the issues of unemployment. If you look at construction in the country today, the Chinese who are coming to Kenya are not engineers but out of necessity, technologists from their country come to supervise the roads and they have done a wonderful job. Look at the Thika Highway and the other roads they have done, look at the University of Nairobi! They are doing one of the biggest buildings in the country and it is being managed by technologists from China. What is so wrong for us to have our own to manage what the Chinese have done? You are only a fool who wants to run away from his mistakes. We all need to learn from what has worked for other communities, copy and paste to the Kenyan situation. I support this Bill. I think it is coming in at the apt time. It is going to make a difference in people’s lives and it is going to ensure that we encourage our youth who have always looked down upon these opportunities as a noble cause because even medicine has managed its people. We should also do the same in this industry. With those few remarks, I support."
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