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    "id": 19235,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/19235/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kinyanjui",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Roads",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 48,
        "legal_name": "Lee Maiyani Kinyanjui",
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    "content": "The hon. Gumbo also mentioned the issue of the ratio of engineers to the population. He correctly said that we have the ratio of one engineer serving a total of about 20,000 people. What is important to note is that out of these 2,000 engineers that we have in Kenya over 80 per cent of these engineers are to be found in Nairobi. Therefore, you will go to some of our other towns outside Nairobi, and you find that there could, probably, be one or two engineers only. As a result of that shortage, sometimes they have had lesser qualified or even unqualified personnel purporting to be engineers. What they do is that after they come up with the architectural drawing or structural drawing, they pass it through the registered engineers and without having to go through and to look at the details. They just append their signature and thereby we pass drawings that will later become a big problem to our people. Therefore, I salute the recommendation by the hon. Member to try and increase the number of engineers in this country to ensure that we are able to meet our goal in the Vision 2030."
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