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    "id": 1165308,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang’",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I rise to support the Statement by Sen. Ngugi. He is a Senator who has taken his role very naturally and quickly. I pray that even in the next Senate, Sen. Ngugi will get an opportunity to at least serve some five years on behalf of the young people of Kenya. I have just been reflecting on why engineering technologists require a different legal framework from other engineers. I know that many of us are debating or contributing to this without fully understanding who engineering technologists are. The definition of Engineering Technologist in Engineering Technologist Act is the most convoluted you find in any Act of Parliament. It is a definition that is one paragraph that has almost 96 words. So, this definition was definitely done by an engineer who did not have skills to make things or life easy. I support Sen. Githua’s proposal that we find ways of placing engineering technologists under the same ministry where the other engineers are regulated. I do not think that engineering technologist are any lesser than engineers. Everyone has got unique skills and responsibilities. You cannot say that a civil engineer is so important that a plumber or a mason should not be regulated by the same body. If I was to be asked - and I have seen engineers like Sen. (Eng.) Maina have come in - I would perhaps say that the Engineers Board and the Act that provides for the Engineers Board should be the same Act that provides for engineering technologists. I know that the professionals have got reasons for this. I do hope that when the good Prof. Magoha comes to the House, Sen. Cherargei will be civil and allow him to explain why this Board has not been constituted. I support."
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