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    "speaker_name": "West Mugirango, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Stephen Mogaka",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker for giving me this chance. At the outset, I express my support for this Bill and congratulate the sponsor, Hon. Kimilu, for a well–thought–out and well-crafted Bill. As a lawyer, I know that unless a profession is defined, its registration provided for in law and a legal framework for the operation of that profession is provided for by law, then the practitioners do so in vanity. I want to thank the sponsor of this Bill for making that legal framework happen. I urge my colleagues to support this Bill. Social workers have been working voluntarily. In fact, many of them have been carrying the tag ‘social worker’ without any clear definition of what is social work. I know in hospitals, prisons, society and even in our faith-based organisations, we have volunteers who do a lot of social work. This Bill provides a framework for mainstreaming all social workers so that they are recognised in the law, and their certification provided for and protected. This will also create a mechanism for us to distil the professionals from quacks. Many at times, people masquerade as professionals, whether medics, lawyers or social workers, and bring those professions into disrepute. This Bill will now sift the professionals and separate them from the pretenders so that, that profession is recognised. I thank the Hon. Member for bringing this Bill during the 13th Parliament. It is during a Government whose Manifesto outlines that every hustle matters. Indeed, social workers are hustlers in their own right and until now, there was no legal framework for their hustle to be recognised. Therefore, this Bill is properly aligned with the Manifesto of the Government of the day. It would be falling on fertile land. It is my prayer that this Bill gets assented to and becomes an Act of Parliament, so that the social workers hustlers can also find protection in the law. 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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