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    "id": 942322,
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    "speaker_name": "Nandi CWR, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Tecla Tum",
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        "legal_name": "Tum Tecla Chebet",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I stand to support the Motion. There is need for measures to be put in place to ensure 100per cent transition from primary to secondary schools and to tertiary institutions. Let me convey my prayers to the people of Mau, who do not have shelter yet they have children sitting for national examinations. They are staying in an unstable environment. My prayers go to the children who started their examination this week and those who have done their practical examinations. We are praying for them to excel like other children in stable homes. It beats logic when people are told to go to where they came from when Kenya is for all of us and when anybody can live anywhere. They have title deeds. I take this opportunity, too, to wish students of Nandi County and the rest of Kenya success in their primary and secondary examinations. If measures for transition to secondary and tertiary institutions are put in place, we will have adequate personnel in our institutions and the unemployment rate will reduce, leading to a reduction of poverty and lawlessness. We need to support this Motion so that we can have adequate personnel. We know the Jubilee Government has the Big Four Agenda: manufacturing, food security, housing and universal healthcare. So, if we develop technical institutions in the country, our children will access jobs. We need more plumbers, electricians and masons so that the housing agenda, through which the Government intends to construct 500,000 houses, can be accomplished. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, there is a lot of hopelessness amongst our youths because of unemployment. They engage in drug abuse and gender violence because they do not think about tomorrow, and they have nothing to lose. So, if we take them to vocational training institutions, they will be self-employed and take care of their children. I have personally taken 150 youths to Technical Vocational Education Training (TVET) institutions and 30 to the National Industrial Training Authority (NITAs), Nairobi. I have used about Kshs8 million of the meagre resources we are given as County Women Representatives, but we have been failed on the grounds. Food security will not be realised when we cannot manufacture. We need plumbers in our food processing factories. We do not need to see our people crying every day without food. Let them be self-employed because the Government cannot employ everyone. We do not need to see students who have completed higher education staying at home. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, every weekend, Members of Parliament are called on school fees matters because those who are newly married have no means of raising school fees 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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