Industry, Trade and Cooperatives Cabinet Secretary Peter Munya has directed the Kenya Industrial Training Institute (KITI ) in Nakuru to ensure all students who complete their courses graduate.
The CS also assured students that all the stalled projects at the institute will be completed.
He was responding to a memorandum presented by the Students’ Chairman Christopher Dikir who stated that there has not been any graduation since 2009.
According to the students, this has demotivated many of them who have completed various courses at the facility with no graduation.
The students also called on the CS to intervene so that they can have access to Helb loans as well as a 62-seater bus for their co-curricular activities.
“CS, as students we hand you a copy of the memorandum of our needs among them graduation, completion of stalled hostel for girls and also a 62-seater bus,” said Dikir.
“I hereby direct the Institute to ensure there is graduation in November. We shall work closely in planning the same. The other requests made by students we shall also follow-up to see to it that they are implemented,” Munya said in reply to the students' requests.
The CS further said the government is working to ensure that the skills gap challenge is addressed.
“As we move forward towards industrialization under the Big 4 agenda we must work towards addressing the skills gap through the technical training,” said Munya who also officially opened a tuition block at the institution.
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