Entry Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 1520685,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1520685/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 279,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Molo, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kuria Kimani",
    "speaker": null,
    "content": "Hon. Temporary Speaker, the existing arrangement of registering for insurance exams is only available at the College of Insurance along Mombasa Road. Imagine someone aspiring to be an insurance professional from Mandela, Molo, Funyula or Lamu, travelling all the way to Nairobi to do those exams. We want to make it open so that the exams can be administered by other institutions, including Technical and Vocational Education Trainings(TVET) in our constituencies. The syllabus should be set by an independent examination body and training to be done by any institution, including TVETs, polytechnics, colleges and universities. Once the students do the exams as per the examination board and pass, they can apply to the Insurance Institute of Kenya for registration as professionals. That means we will have a record of everyone in the sector. If members are involved in misconduct, their practice licence can be cancelled and they will have to go and make good the mistakes that they may have made. Hon. Temporary Speaker, considering the need to save taxpayers’ money, the Bill expressly put it that it shall not require any money from the exchequer. Let the running of the examination board be catered for by the fees they are going to charge for those examinations, and the institute be run by membership and training fees that they are going to collect from students who are aspiring to be insurance professionals. This is a very timely Bill. I believe it is going to help drive the penetration of insurance business in this country and ensure that professionalism in the insurance sector is upheld. With those remarks, I beg to move and request Hon. (Dr) Wilberforce Oundo, the Member for Funyula, to second."
}