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    "id": 1035212,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1035212/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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        "id": 1835,
        "legal_name": "Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah",
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    "content": "particular provision is introducing a proviso in law requiring those who intend to train as accountants to join the institute. That denies Kenyans the right to education. Educate Kenyans to become accountants; if you want further professional development, or to regulate accountants who have first been trained, then you make laws that will allow regulation of people who have already been trained. What the Leader of the Majority Party has not responded to is the fronting of the right to education and, secondly, on compelling a student to join an association. The Constitution is clear that no person shall be compelled to join an association of whatever nature, be it a professional association or an institute like ICPAK or LSK. That is why LSK allows lawyers to go through their professional training and sit for examinations without being hindered and then they are regulated when they go out to practise. That is all we are asking for Kenyans who seek to train and be educated as accountants. First, educate and train them and, if you want you can then regulate them. There is no time limit as to when we can legislate on how the institute and, indeed, the Government can regulate the conduct of accountants. We cannot deny Kenyans their right to education and compel them to join associations. Tomorrow another profession, maybe the association of evangelical societies or evangelical preachers or some form of religious grouping, will also seek to create legislation that says in order for you to train in a certain profession, you must first be a member of an institute. I beg to submit that Hon. Kimunya has not responded to issues of how we are denying Kenyans the right to train and the right to education by attempting to compel them to be members of associations."
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