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    "id": 830869,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Matuga, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kassim Tandaza",
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        "legal_name": "Kassim Sawa Tandaza",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Let me start by congratulating Hon. Njagua for bringing this timely Motion. As earlier mentioned with his permission, it should not be urging the Government. Previous experiences had people urging the Government, but nothing happens after that, even after we have passed it as a House. I stand to support the Motion because I have been in the construction industry all my life. This is where you deal with masons, carpenters and the people who normally do the actual work. But as my colleagues have said, at this point, they cannot register their own companies because the NCA, which is the registration body, asks for some qualification, a paper that shows that one is, at least, qualified up to a certain level. Those people definitely would qualify but, because they lack papers, they are not qualified. For instance, in my county of Kwale, we do not have a certification center. It is in Mombasa, and not even in Mombasa Town. You have to go past Mombasa to the Coast Institute of Technology. That is the certification center. A person who normally works as a mason has the experience and the knowledge, but as we all know, he is normally paid a daily wage and would hardly get the time and money to traverse the county to get certification. So, bringing those certification centers into the constituencies would solve a myriad of problems that I believe most constituents face because of the distances involved. It should not cost the Government any money since it is already in their plan that every constituency now must be having a TVET centre. So, it is only the personnel who will be administering those tests that should be travelling to those centers. We also have youth polytechnics where carpenters, electricians and other people are trained. You only need to take those trainers to those centers to do this certification. With those few remarks, I support this Motion since it will greatly help in giving jobs and recognition to the young men and women at the grassroots level, who actually know how to do the work but do not have any papers. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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