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"speaker_title": "Hon. David ole Sankok",
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"content": " Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I support the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing, Hon. Pkosing. We were together in ICC. We have come a long way. This is a win for professionals and for all Kenyans. If you are a professional engineer, there is no possibility of you being lied to on pricing of infrastructure. We have seen cases in this country where a road that is supposed to cost Kshs3 billion costing over Kshs10 billion. We have seen dams which have not been completed because of hiking of prices. When we have a professional engineer as the CEO, it will be simple for him or her to go through the bills of quantities and understand what is needed and their prices. If you have a lawyer as the CEO and BQs are brought, he may not understand what is happening. It is like putting someone who is not a doctor as the CEO of KNH. There is a possibility that somebody may claim supplying penicillin while he only supplied Panadol. Because you do not have the know-how, you may be lied to. So, this amendment is a win for professionals. Our professional children and youth will be confident that they will be recognised as professionals in their fields. It is not good to say a holder of any degree may head the institution in charge of constructing roads. So, I supported my colleague at the ICC. He knows what we did there. We did a good job. Thank you."
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