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    "id": 903841,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "from what has been agreed on as the proper way of doing things without consulting this House. Madam Temporary Speaker, the truth of the matter is that as parliamentarians, we have failed in our responsibilities. We have allowed people to make law and give policy directions that have the force of law without being subjected to parliamentary process. We know that as per Article 94 that is unconstitutional. If you look at the Budget Framework of 2019/2020, somebody has proposed that the very noble exercise that this Government has been carrying out of funding Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institutions and ensuring that each constituency has a Technical Training Institute (TTI) is now stopped. Many of those programmes are either half way or have not been completed. This is a brilliant idea. There is no Government programme that has 100 per cent support like the TVET institutions programme because it will give many of our young people the skills to at least fend for themselves. It will also ensure that they do not need to have white collar jobs for them to provide for their young families. Therefore, I plead with my colleagues in the National Assembly that they should not dare to accept that policy departure from funding TVET institutions until each of the 290 constituencies in this Republic has a TVET institution. If a person cannot join the university or college, he or she can join a TVET institution to acquire skills and change his or her life. Madam Temporary Speaker, when you look at the economies that are moving this world, these spare parts are not made by graduates or people from colleges. They are made by young people who have been equipped with simple skills, for example, sewing the cover into a steering wheel or generating and making screws and those kinds of things. Therefore, it is unfortunate that, all the time, we are thinking about putting a stop to the livelihood of Kenyans without providing an alternative. I will be more than glad to support this policy decision if the Cabinet Secretary (CS) had said that we have built an industry perhaps, in Nakuru, Kisumu or whichever part of the country that now has the capacity to employ 20,000 young people. Therefore, they are stopping the importation of these spare parts, so that we can give life to that particular industry. However, stopping it without giving us an alternative is not the solution. Sen. Sakaja he has made this Statement under Standing Order No. 48(1) and if Members of the Committee Tourism, Trade and Industrialization are listening to this conversation, they should not let this matter rest at just complaining and raising our concerns about this particular issue. We want to see them take their rightful place and ensure that Parliament speaks on issues that affect the lives of Kenyans. Let them invite the KeBS, so that they can guide the country on what has informed this particular decision. That way, we can be sure that it is good for the people of Kenya. Madam Temporary Speaker, as somebody observed previously, we are not saying that some of these policy decisions that we are opposing are fraudulent. However, we disagree with the way in which the Government is executing its mandate. All we are reading about is that it has concluded a particular process, but the people who are supposed to be affected by this particular process have not been informed. Therefore, I request that the Committee on Tourism, Trade and Industrialization ensures that they call The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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