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    "id": 830830,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Roysambu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Isaac Ndirangu",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Isaac Waihenya Ndirangu",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I congratulate my colleague, Jaguar, for presenting this Motion. In a nutshell, this Motion is asking the Government to enable access to technical skills upgrading for Jua Kali artisans. This Motion is asking the Government to establish suitably located facilities for training and testing Jua Kali artisans. In the Jua Kali sector, most of the young people who are apprentices or informal learners do not have formal qualifications like Kenya Certificate of Primary Education and Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education. Over time, young people have acquired a thorough experience of five or 10 years and have become mechanics and carpenters. Because they have not been formally tested and sat for the Government grade test, they cannot access formal jobs that are on offer by the Government in the Ministries and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGO). What happens? The young learners, though qualified and having experience are denied the opportunity to get formal employment. Jaguar is requesting the Government to make it possible for young people in the Jua Kali sector, who have experience, expertise and are competent, to be tested in centres that have been established by the Government in every constituency. This will open up avenues for young people who never went to secondary school or obtained diplomas to have certificates after their competence has been tested. This is so that they can be absorbed formally and upgraded from Grade 3, Grade 2 or Grade 1. This is a practical industry. In Gikomba, you will find the best carpenters in this country. In Grogan, just near the roundabout and Nyayo Market, you will find the best mechanics. Those young people do not have certificates. Nobody formally recognises their skills. Can we create institutional capacity that is within the reach of those young people so that they can be tested in every constituency? I support the Motion because, in my own constituency, there are very good mechanics in Roysambu. There are very good carpenters at Githurai, particularly at the roundabout. There are many good plumbers in Zimmerman and Kahawa West. They do not have formal certificates. The Government should be persuaded that those facilities are provided in the existing polytechnics so that Jua Kali artisans who work in Kariokor or Grogon can be tested and given official certificates. With those few remarks, I commend the Mover of this Motion and beg to support."
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