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    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, I find the intervention by Hon. Ichung’wah rather unfortunate, especially because he will have an opportunity to canvass the same feelings in the Second Reading. I actually do not know the unconstitutionality of this Bill, because the Accountants Act is very clear. The ICPAK has been given the power by this very House to regulate all accountants. Accountancy begins from training up to when one practises. There has been a lacuna in terms of the people who have not qualified, but have been working for so long describing themselves as accountants. When you look at this, within the wider war on graft and the reforms needed to sort out corruption in this country, there is no corruption that takes place in any organisation without the involvement of an accountant. This is because they are the ones who pay the final amounts, ensure the money is disbursed or payment is processed. The ones who are qualified are regulated by ICPAK and the ones who are not qualified and keep saying they are still under training, in as much as they are senior accountants, are not regulated by the institute. The nation knows this is an accountant, but there is no legal body mandated to regulate that kind of person. These amendments were coming from that perspective, so that someone does not portray himself or herself as an accountant working for an organisation yet he is not. Once you state you are accountant, everyone assumes you must be under the regulation of the Accountants Act through ICPAK. We must also remember that in 2008, we changed the regulation of accountants. Previously, we used to have the Registration of Accountants Board. It would register everyone and then propose you to join the ICPAK after sitting the examinations of the Kenya Accountants and Secretaries National Examination Board. This House in its wisdom removed the Registration of Accountants Board. So, we only have the Kenya Accountants and Secretaries National Examination Board, that basically processes students, examines them but cannot regulate them. They are then handed over to ICPAK for regulation. Without the Registration of Accountants Board, there are only two bodies - the examiner and the regulator. Some students have finished while others have exhausted their chances of ever finishing their exams yet, they call themselves students. There are those who have finished, like Hon. Ichung’wah and do not want to be regulated by ICPAK. They continue working as accountants and portraying themselves as accountants in the public, but there is nowhere one can check if this person is regulated or not. I think that is the whole basis of the amendments that took place in 2008. They need to know there is Amos Kimunya who wants to join the accountancy profession, so as to be monitored 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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