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    "id": 585033,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Ngetich",
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        "legal_name": "Cecilia Chelangat Ngetich",
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    "content": "the medical profession has gone down to regulate the various cadres. This House has passed about seven Bills that have become Acts in the medical profession. We have the Doctors and Dentists Act, the pharmacists, the nurses and every cadre has its regulatory body. Most recently in this House, we passed the Physiotherapists Bill, which was the latest in that medical line. Therefore, this is what this Bill aims to do; to create a regulatory body for the engineering technologists and technicians under that engineering profession. After the promulgation of our Constitution, several sectors had to re-align their policies particularly in conformity with the Constitution and also with the trends globally. Under the Bill of Rights, Article 21, our Constitution grants the fundamental duty of the State that every State organ should observe, respect, protect, promote and fulfill the rights of fundamental freedoms in the Bill of Rights. The freedom that we are talking about here is such as the freedom of association and the freedom to belong to a particular body like that regulatory body. In Article 46, the Constitution grants the consumer rights to goods and services. This means that every consumer is entitled to the goods and services that are provided. Therefore, in the education reforms, it has recognised three levels of education. We have basic education which is governed by the Basic Education Act of 2013. We have the Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) and the TVET Act of 2013. Then, we have the Universities Act of 2012. Now this is to emphasise the need to have the TVET focussed on as one of the education reforms. The reason is particularly the TVET. We are talking of education for all. We are also talking about promoting access."
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