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    "id": 1241353,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Osotsi",
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        "legal_name": "Osotsi Godfrey Otieno",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I wish to comment on the first Petition, which is a petition to request for the formation of a credit management institute, which will regulate credit management profession in the country. Whereas, I support the idea of having a professional organization, having a legislation around regulating a particular profession has to be done with a lot of care, so that we do not end up having so many legislations on regulation of professions when they can best be done under one big professional organization. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, credit management has a lot of financial aspects to it. There are issues of accounting and auditing and that can still be catered for under the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Kenya (ICPAK), which already exists. I am also aware that credit management is one of the certified courses offered by the examination body called KASNEB that deals with accounting certification courses. So, the Committee that will be looking at this Petition needs to interrogate ICPAK to see the need of having a separate professional body under legislation to deal with one matter of credit management. I know ICPAK deals with the taxation, accounting and auditing issues. We have to be convinced that credit management can be dealt with separately. So, there is need of having a legislation to regulate the various professions because that will be one of the ways of instilling ethics in our profession and possibly dealing with the matters of corruption in this country. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I sponsored a Bill in the last Parliament to regulate the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) profession in this country. The Bill was hugely fought by some business community in this country. We continue to have challenges in this sector like increasing cyber-crime which in most cases is facilitated by ICT professionals. The matter is aggravated by the lack of a proper legal framework to regulate this particular industry. So, I vouch for having professional bodies which are under the law. However, that has to be done with a lot of care and without discriminating particular professions, mainly the ICT profession, which up to date is not under any piece of legislation yet there are a lot of challenges. I know a country like Nigeria which had the highest levels of cyber crime in the world; they have gone down because there is a legislation to regulate the ICT sector, in terms of how training is done, how they are registered and how they are punished. However, there is no such legislation in this country. When I tried to bring this up, there was a lot of resistance from multinationals because they have been benefiting from lack of a proper regulatory framework for ICT professionals in this country. I know these comments are not related, but I think it is important to look at these issues as we move on."
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