Farhiya Ali Haji

All parliamentary appearances

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• 15 Jul 2021 in Senate: There is also need to discuss career and job market match in schools. We need to identify needed knowledge gaps. We need about 10 blue-collar jobs persons for every two white-collar persons. If we are only training white-collar jobs, how are we going to get jobs for them? view
• 15 Jul 2021 in Senate: 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. view
• 15 Jul 2021 in Senate: Manufacturing is one of Jubilee Government’s Manifesto for creating jobs and produce. We cannot be an economy that is just consuming. We have to be an economy that is producing. Otherwise, we will consume all our resources and have nothing to pay our bills. that is where we are heading if we do not change our course. I am glad that is going to change through this Bill. view
• 15 Jul 2021 in Senate: If we produce locally all the equipment we need in this country, we will be saving a lot of foreign exchange. That means our economy will also develop in tandem with how much skillful our population is. view
• 15 Jul 2021 in Senate: In terms of ICT, I am disappointed because we used to be ahead in Kenya in great innovations such as mobile banking and other things. What happened in between? We need to harness that because it is future of how things will go in terms of innovation and development. view
• 15 Jul 2021 in Senate: We need to identify where the pain is in the society and how we can address that to make money. Unless one solves a problem, they can never make money. There is also need for specialization. Sen. Wetangula talked about people going to difference counties. We can only do that if each county has its specialization and anybody who needs that goes to that county. Otherwise, if all of us mass produce, we will have blue-collar persons that do not have jobs as well. We need to have each county specializing in certain areas and everybody knows that, for example, ... view
• 15 Jul 2021 in Senate: Finally, there is need to match skills to the market. What is necessary in our market, neighbouring countries, Canada or wherever that you need to address. There is need to do so. In absence of job market with skill matching, then whatever we do will just waste resources. I support and also wish to cede my time. view
• 14 Jul 2021 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I am just wondering why you are a persona non grata if you did not go to Alliance in this House. I also want to announce that I went to Alliance Girls’ High School. view
• 14 Jul 2021 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I wanted to know if she wants to be informed. There is something I want to give her in terms of the budget. The budget of this year compared to last year, there is Kshs53 billion extra that His Excellency the President provided. Remember after we had the stalemate in the Senate regarding the formula, the Kshs53 billion extra was provided. Each county has much more money. Unless a governor does not want to do the vocational training work, they have much more money at their disposal that they can use. Let them not give you that ... view
• 7 Jul 2021 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for this opportunity. I also thank Sen. Halake for being consistent in bringing the plight of her people to the fore and always talking about this issue. view