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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Muia",
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        "legal_name": "Regina Nthambi Muia",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this Bill. I am not going to repeat what most of my colleagues have said. We are not going to have a field for very selfish people who want to dominate this profession, and say that other people cannot be registered. I wish our colleague was here; I would tell him that those people, or groups, actually do not have the technology which is there now. Once they try to lock out our young people who are preparing to become engineers, they will be discouraged; once they are out there no one will consider that they are qualified. These are people who are qualified; most of the graduates taking engineering courses are pursuing other professional courses like marketing. I want to give an example of my constituency. When I request an engineer to come up with a bill of quantities (BQ) for a borehole, he is not the same person who is going to do that job. He will come up with a BQ and leave the work to other people to do. So, it is selfish for engineers to dominate the field and say that they are not able to work with other professionals. It is high time this House looked into this issue. We should support other bodies to come on board. We should not allow a group to dominate the field to the extent that they want nobody to do whatever they do. We also have the body for registration of architects and quantity surveyors. They have formed a body bringing other professionals on board, so that they can work together. Any engineer without the current technology is not a serious engineer. If they are not going to recognise other fields and the need to work together, they will not learn. They should include those they have left out, because people learn through experience. Without any experience, those young people will be left out doing their own things. At the end of the day they may turn out to be the best, because some of them use other technologies. Things are changing. Our country has changed. For example, you cannot be a senior politician in one day. You start as a junior politician and continue growing up until you join Parliament. At the end of the day you are called a senior politician because you started somewhere and you have grown. So, this group of 2,000 people, as other colleagues have said, has left out a very big group. Today you might think you are the best until a certain time when you sit down with other people and realise there are a few things you lack. Once you put your minds together, you come up with a professional body that Kenyans can trust. I do not want to repeat what other colleagues have said. I support this Bill."
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