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    "id": 1129048,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1129048/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mogotio, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Daniel Tuitoek",
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        "legal_name": "Daniel Kamuren Tuitoek",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this amendment Bill. Generally speaking, engineering is very precise. It is not a job which you can wake up one morning and be able to execute. I heard a few of my colleagues saying that we should open up the sector and allow more people to manage it. That is like saying that the work of a surgeon can be done by a normal doctor. This is a specialised area, therefore, a Director-General in this field should be somebody with a lot of experience. Looking at the clauses outlined here, there is a requirement that one should hold a Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering and a master’s degree from a recognised in Kenya. It goes on to talk about the number of years; at least 10 years’ post-registration experience and another 10 years of managerial experience. This explains that beyond registration in Highway and Road Engineering, you also need to be a manager with at least 10 years’ experience. I think this is actually a proper requirement. I think the only challenge is the number of years that we need a manager to serve. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I was thinking about the procurement period associated with engineering projects. Some of them take a lot of time; from the design to the procurement aspect, valuation, financing and sometimes the periods can even be more than a year or two. We should allow a manager to serve for five years to enable them to oversee a number of projects within that period. Therefore, I really do not object to the idea of raising the term of office from three to five years. In this particular case, the Chairman has done a good job to suggest five years. The only thing that might arise is in a scenario where some of these managers have been acting for quite some time. I really do not know how to deal with people who have acted for five years. I do not know whether that is breaking the law because it states that people should not act for more than six months before being confirmed. The Chair of the Committee should look for a way to stop or prevent people from acting for a long time without being confirmed. It is a requirement in law that if you act for six months, you should be confirmed. In this particular case, we might find a manager who has been acting for five years and if we extend their term, they will have served for 10 years. If you renew their contract for another term of five years, they will have served for 15 years. That will be a little bit on a higher side and we might need to relook into that."
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