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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Gatanga, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Joseph Nduati",
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        "legal_name": "Joseph Nduati Ngugi",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for clarifying that. In fact, I want to congratulate the Leader of the Majority Party for dropping what was proposed to be done by the NCA. As a professional in that sector, some of those rules are not acceptable and we have even challenged them in court. Thank you very much, Leader of the Majority Party. I also want to support the Business Laws (Amendment) (No.2) Bill especially when it comes to ease of registering a business. Before, it was very difficult even just to register a mere company, but now doing it online is very easy. I would encourage even our young people, because we have many jobs which we are doing in the constituency, to register companies. However, I would like to plead with the Attorney-General, especially for our youth. The registration is still very expensive. To register just an ordinary company, a young person would require to pay maybe Kshs200 to do a name search. You can imagine if he is searching two names that will be Kshs400. On approval, he would be required to pay about Kshs600, which is becoming very expensive especially when we are implementing NG-CDF projects in the rural areas. The NG-CDF Board has insisted that for you to do an NG-CDF project, you have to register a company and then again you have to register with the NCA, which is very expensive. It is about Kshs8,500. For a youth to do an ordinary toilet which will cost about Kshs200,000, maybe you would require about Kshs10,000, which I feel is too expensive and we need to do something about it. She says that she would like Kenya Power to pull up its socks because power connection is still a huge problem in this country. Water connection is also is still a problem. Obtaining a construction permit is also very difficult. It takes a very long time especially where professionals are involved. This is because just to construct an ordinary house, you will be required to have a registered architect and you know how expensive it can be. Maybe you will need a registered engineer. Then you will take those drawings to the county government and pay for the architectural drawings to be approved. You will still pay some money to have those drawings approved by 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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