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    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David ole Sankok",
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    "content": "occasions that experience is the best teacher. This is what we have learnt from this country because the best mechanics, the best plumbers and electricians that we engage on daily basis are people who have just had experience and have no training in the field. Not going through formal education should not be a condemnation. Some of these people did not go through formal education not because they are not intelligent or knowledgeable; it is because of lack of school fees. Some of us from the pastoralist communities know very well that it has been very difficult to access education. Those of us with disabilities have faced more difficulties to attain education especially where schools are very many kilometres away. That does not mean that these people are stupid, it is because they did not have an opportunity to go to school. But with experience, some of them have emerged as the best plumbers, the best electricians and the best mechanics that we engage on daily basis. Thomas Edison went through primary school for 16 years and was the inventor of the bulb. I remember a statement I read long time ago in the newspapers that Kamlesh Pattni was told by his teacher that he can be nothing better than a carpenter. We know how active Kamlesh Pattni became later on in life and how he confused the whole country with the Goldenberg. These people may be knowledgeable enough and that is why it is very important for us to engage them and to make sure that they are certified, they are given certificates so that they can seek jobs with something to show that they have these experiences. It is also high time that the country started coordinating its own activities. Imagine the National Youth Service (NYS), NITA and TVET are all targeting to train the youths. We should coordinate these activities of training our youth in the TVETs. TVETs are now in every constituency. Let us have a department that is supported by NYS and NITA so that we can test and certify our youths instead of starting from the scratch. When we start from the scratch, we will be told that there are no funds. Request for budget will go through the Budget and Appropriations Committee and they will give reasons such as there are no funds. So, if we can coordinate all these activities… We have no coordination mechanism in this country and that is why you will find bursaries being issued by NG-CDF, County Governments, National Government Affirmative Action Fund, National Council for Persons with disabilities and everybody else. You therefore do not know who will benefit from these bursaries, who has not benefited and whether the vulnerable have benefited. Let us therefore coordinate the training of our youth. The NYS, TVET and NITA should come together and give us a straightforward way of testing and certifying our youth. Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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