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    "id": 826333,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/826333/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Makueni, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Daniel Maanzo",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Daniel Kitonga Maanzo",
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    "content": "(KCPE). This year, only 600,000 students are sitting for the form four national exams. So, it is not known where some 400,000 students in Kenya go after completing primary education. Some of them go into informal sector. Most of them learn skills like wood carving and fixing of vehicles. In fact, one of the best mechanics I know from western Kenya, who can fix any car anytime using very modern technology, has never been trained by anyone. He only learnt through apprenticeship through his uncle, who was a very good mechanic and who had established his own garage having been unable to proceed to high school for lack of school fees. We have a lot of such cases. This is where a nation goes into industrialisation. Part of the Big Four Agenda is production. Unless our young people can acquire some skills through apprenticeship or learning on the job, we will lose a lot of Kenyans to the informal sector. It is good for the informal sector to be formalised and funded properly through the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF). Members of Parliament should be able to use their NG-CDF kitties to set up these centres so that they can acquire skills that will enable them to engage in production of goods for use locally as well as for export. That way, some Kenyans who are in informal sector will have an opportunity to formally upgrade their skills. If we do this, many Kenyans will go into useful ventures that will enhance production in this country. We have very skilful Kenyans but what most of them lack is opportunity. Most of them do what they like, especially in artistic works. Yesterday, a young man came to Parliament and he had drawn a very nice effigy of his MP. Every Member out there was asking how he did it. He uses a pencil and he can come up with a very accurate picture."
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