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    "id": 1129151,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1129151/?format=api",
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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. Wangwe does not intend, post-retirement, to go back to KeRRA, KeNHA or KURA. I also hope that your retirement does not come soon. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I was speaking on the question of registration with the Engineers Board of Kenya. It is important to have, at least, 15 years’ experience with, at least, 10 years’ post-registration experience. I would really want to implore the Chair to support me as I intend to bring an amendment to retain that. It is important to have 15 years’ post-registration experience in road engineering and its management and, at least, 15 years of experience in a managerial position. Ten years' experience might not be very helpful. We are asking for that kind of experience, but we are also extending the term to five years. That is the other thing that I intend to amend. I heard the Leader of the Minority within the Majority Party say it is the obsession we have with three years. It is not an obsession and he knows that the Mwongozo policy stipulates between three to five years. Indeed, that is the case with most of our State corporations. I guess it is only KEMSA that we extended by a year to move it from three to four years. I have served in this House as a Vice-Chair of the Public Investments Committee, and the current Chair of the Committee, Hon. Abdullswamad, is here and he will tell you about the issues he finds from the audit reports with long serving members and CEOs of some of these parastatals. If we want to extend the term office from three years, I would really wish that the Chair and all the other interested parties consider moving this not to more than four years. This is to ensure that other upcoming engineers get an opportunity to serve. If you get someone serving for five years, renewable up to ten years, and you are getting people who have 10 to 15 years’ post-registration and post-qualification experience, then it means that if you graduate at about 20-25 years of age, you can only become a DG at the age of close to 40 years. If you serve another 10 years, those you qualified with would have attained retirement age. Therefore, we must retain this at three years. However, if we must extend the term, we must do so with very good reasons. If you cannot perform in three years and you get another renewable term of three years, I do not know what you want to do that you will not have done in six years. We should even have a proviso that you can have an extension of one year after you finalise your six years. I would really be opposed to a five-year term. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I intend to bring those amendments at the Committee of the whole House stage. I drove through the road from Elburgon to Molo and I must report that the road is quite pathetic. Those are some of the issues that the Committee needs to look at. I did that in our usual Tangatanga business while talking to Kenyans in the hustler nation across the nation. I also worked very hard to drive back so as to be here to contribute to this Bill. With those very few remarks, I beg to support with reservations."
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