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    "speaker_name": "Emurua Dikirr, KANU",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kipyegon Ng’eno",
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        "legal_name": "Johana Ngeno Kipyegon",
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    "content": "upright. A healthy nation makes its people work for 24 hours. If our representative Houses of Parliament, the Senate and the National Assembly, and the county assemblies ensure that most of their budgets are allocated to education, our children will attain education that will help them in future. Sometime back, I read an article that the Republic of China has changed over 600 universities into colleges. The reason they decided to do that is that most of the learners who went through university education learnt a lot of theories and when they graduated, they did not know many things. People who go through college education in diploma, higher national diploma and certificate are really trained towards a particular specialisation. If you go to most of our hospitals in the country, the students who have diplomas are the most employed than those who did degree in nursing. That shows you that our college education is superior to the theories that we obtain from universities. So, this idea of having 100 per cent transition to colleges will go a long way to help our population in attaining the required skills that will help this country to move forward both in medicine, electrical and other fields. In the last Parliament, my constituency was one of the most marginalised in the Republic. When we got our constituency, the highest level of a learning institution was a high school. We never had even a driving school or a single college that could offer a certificate in computers. I made it a norm in our constituency to have many learners join colleges like Technical Training Institutes (TTIs) and National Polytechnics. We never had people with such skills in my constituency. During that tenure, I used my National Government-Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF) Committee to allocate some funds towards building a Kenya Medical Training College (KMTC). I am grateful that within three years, we have managed to build a serious KMTC which we launched a month ago. In March, we will have admissions for students to do a variety of courses in that KMTC. We also opened a TTI. I thought this should go a long way in helping our students to learn. If this Motion was to become law, my constituents would benefit, mostly in learning skills that can help them in our areas. So, I wish to state clearly that I support. I urge the Member concerned not to urge the Government, but to bring this as a Bill or an amendment to an Act that exists so that we can make it a law and help our population have the 100 per cent transition to colleges. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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