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    "id": 830860,
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    "speaker_name": "Molo, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kuria Kimani",
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        "legal_name": "Francis Kuria Kimani",
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    "content": " Yes, Njagua or Hon. Kanyi, the Member of Parliament for Starehe Constituency. You know we know him by his musician name “Jaguar”. There is someone called Professor Howard Gardner who in 1983 described the seven types of intelligence. This discussion really takes heart of those because the seven types of intelligence include linguistics that is one’s expertise in language and one’s logic. Then, there is also musical intelligence where Hon. Kanyi seems to have excelled very well. When you go through the list in addition to musical, you get kinesthetic and spatial intelligence. This is the ability to use one’s hand and measure distance. When some of us are asked the distance or length of this house, they will have to take a tape measure and measure it. But, those Jua kali artisans, just looking at the distance between the door and where you are, can tell almost the exact number of metres or feet that is the length of this distance. This greatly faults the education system that we have. One just goes to primary school for eight years, sits an exam of five papers and, goes for another four years and sits for a few exams. They are supposed to measure how much intelligent or good you are at particular subjects. Consequently, even how successful you are in your life. We have seen very many people who will make the best furniture, fix your car the best way or do the best painting but fail when it comes to employment opportunities. In those employment opportunities, we are required to submit a curriculum vitae where we are supposed to summarise all our knowledge and skills in a maximum of two pages. When the curriculum vitae lands on an employer’s desk, they look at what is outlined there – hardly ever do they give a chance to those people to come and express themselves. If we have those apprenticeship centres in our constituencies as this Motion describes, that means we are going to have many of those artisans. They are going not to just have the technical skills that they already possess but also a paper to show by it. This is going to revolutionise the employment industry of this country. We have legislated all the formal sectors. If you go to the financial sector, we have testing centres like the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Kenya (ICPAK) and the Kenya Bankers Association. If you go to the legal sector, we have the Kenya School of Law (KSL) and all those other testing centres. If you are a lawyer and I ask you, you will show me a The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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