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    "id": 1129141,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I rise to support this Bill with reservations. I want to join a number of my colleagues that I heard during the contributions point out some of the things that I would really want to talk about. Let me also take this opportunity to thank Hon. Pkosing because he is now a listening Chair. He has listened to the Members' sentiments and he knows the problems we had with the Bill before, especially on the question of relegating engineering professionals almost to second fiddle within the roads agency in this country. I must really commend him for agreeing to take this Bill back to the Committee and agreeing that it is, indeed, important that these road agencies are run by director-generals with an engineering background. I cannot remember the Member who mentioned that we have never had a Chief Justice who is an engineer or an accountant. We have also never had a chair emeritus of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Kenya (ICPAK) like the Leader of the Minority within the Majority Party, Hon. Kimunya. He was a Chair of ICPAK because he is an accountant. He is not an engineer. It is also important that we encourage young engineers within the road agencies. The Chair will understand the reason we were very opposed to opening up the position of director general to people who are not engineers. You must encourage engineers who are working in our roads’ agencies, be it KURA, 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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