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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ogolla",
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        "legal_name": "Gideon Ochanda Ogolla",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Let me join my colleagues in congratulating Madam Cecilia for bringing up this Bill. It is very important, in my view. If you look through the world and if you put aside what we call natural disasters, the rest of the other disasters are related to technology and if you put aside the issues of human error and issues of natural disasters, the rest are technology related. The level at which we individually and generally interface with works and actions of technology is so high to an extent that if you do not get a way of how to regulate this, we are always courting a disaster. Number one, if you look at this country, there is a point at which the middle level colleges and those colleges that were churning out diploma graduates--- We had a 10-year period that we had basically caused the collapse of the sector. We turned all the middle level colleges into universities. For purposes of regulating, it is important to check through in terms of training. Who is training them now? You go to every town and in second floors of all buildings there is some kind of a college running some kind of training. The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology does not have a proper and clear way of knowing, registering or seeing exactly who does the training. When everybody is training and training is done by all manner of people, the best way is to have a regulatory body that can easily check this. It is important that we look at it. As at now, we are in the process of rebuilding and coming up with all manner of technical institutes. I remember in 2013, Canada was looking for just 40 people who had diploma level in plumbing works and this country could not get them Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the other issue I want to look at is that of the correlation between ethical practices and training, as well as discipline and penalties. There is a correlation in terms of the person to license. Who do you license? You must license somebody from a recognised institution. I have alluded to the fact that some of these institutions, in my view, are not recognisable. You cannot say that they are recognised institutions. Therefore, the The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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