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"content": " Thank you, Sen. Okenyuri. The putting of question is deferred to the next sitting of this House. That will be tomorrow if the Order Paper allows."
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"content": "ADOPTION OF REPORT ON THE INTRODUCTION OF THE HOSPITALITY PROFESSIONALS BILL"
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"content": " Sen. Okenyuri, are you still the one presenting the Report on behalf of the Chairperson? You may proceed."
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"content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I beg to move– THAT the Senate adopts the report of the Standing Committee on Trade, Industrialisation and Tourism on a petition to the Senate on the need for the introduction of the Hospitality Professionals Bill, laid on the Table of the Senate on Thursday, 5th December, 2024. Madam Temporary Speaker, I request Sen. Mungatana to second."
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"content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, if you can remember, there was a time--- First of all, I beg to second. There is a time that Human Resource (HR) practitioners never used to have a professional body. I remember many years ago when we were serving in the National Assembly, HR practitioners approached us and said that there are lawyers, quantity surveyors, doctors and so on and so forth. All these are old and well established professions. The HR profession has come of age in this country and in other jurisdictions. The HR practitioners have their own boards. They ensure ethical standards and such kind of things. They requested us to help them have this law in place. I cannot recall exactly which Member of Parliament (MP) was working on that, but I actively participated in bringing up the law that created a professional body for HR practitioners. In this case, we are speaking about professionals in the hospitality industry and Kenya is well known. If you go to many East African countries, you will find that professionals who are running those big hotels are from Kenya. Madam Temporary Speaker, you will remember that a few years ago when we went to South Sudan for the games, in most of those hotels, managers, assistant managers and caterers were people who were trained at the Kenya Utalii College here. During its heydays, the Kenya Utalii College used to produce many professionals who have gone to serve with distinction across East Africa and the rest of Africa. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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"content": "The hospitality profession needs to have its own board, so that they have professional and ethical standards. This is a good step towards giving these people professional independence. I am saying so because as it stands now, the hospitality profession is regulated by the Kenya Tourism Board (KTB) which oversees the tourism and hospitality sector. It is also affected by the Tourism Regulatory Authority (TRA), which is responsible for licensing and regulating tourism and hospitality businesses. The KTB comprises people who may not necessarily be professionals in the hospitality industry. That includes the management. People who sit on the board may not necessarily be professionals in that field. Can you imagine being a professional chef, hotel manager in charge of cleaning and supervising, or a matron? Can you imagine having been a chef for the past 30 years, yet the person regulating your profession is never associated with it, but since they are a member of the KTB, they are the ones controlling you? That state of affairs should not be encouraged"
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"content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I fully support this idea. As I second this Motion, I pray that the Senate will support it, so that Kenyans in this profession feel that they belong because they will be in charge of their own profession. When there are misconducts within the hotel industry, they will punish people involved. Not so long ago, we were speaking in this Senate about some people. I do not want to mention their names, but they are of foreign extraction. They mistreated Kenyans just because of the skin colour and therefore they were not given access to their hotel or restaurant. The Governor of Nairobi City County had to revoke a licence because of that misconduct. Such people should be punished by ethical standards within the hospitality industry. They should be indicted by professionals within that practice. It is not the place of a governor to bring discipline to the hospitality industry. The industry can self- regulate, just like the legal, media and medical professions and so on and so forth. This is a good step towards professionalising the hospitality industry. With those many remarks, I want to congratulate the Mover and the Committee for the good work done. Madam Temporary Speaker, I beg to second."
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"content": " Hon. Senators, I will now propose the question."
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