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    "id": 196767,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Wathika",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Public Works",
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        "legal_name": "Dickson Wathika Mwangi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. My names are Dickson Mwangi Wathika. I am the Member of Parliament for Makadara Constituency in Nairobi. First, allow me to thank the people of Makadara for electing me to represent them in this august House. Also, allow me to thank the councillors that I worked with as the Mayor of the City of Nairobi for having elected me to serve as the Mayor of Nairobi for two consecutive terms. Allow me also to thank, particularly, the people of Ofafa Maringo in Makadara Constituency for having elected me to serve them for three consecutive terms before finally adding up their votes to make me their Member of Parliament. I want to promise that I will do my best to serve them as their Member of Parliament and to serve Kenyans in general. Allow me also to thank the President of the Republic of Kenya, His Excellency Mwai Kibaki for having appointed me to serve as an Assistant Minister for Public Works. I am very grateful for that and I will give it all my brains and energy to serve Kenyans together with my other colleagues. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I wish to support this Bill because it intends to inject or direct professionalism in the accounting field. When a professional body is well constituted and regulated, then you expect very professional results from this body. That is why I want to support this Bill. I also want to ask the Minister for Finance to look into the way these examination bodies carry out their exams. I have personally witnessed, in my studies as an accountant, a lot of unfairness in the manner in which examinations are carried out by KASNEB. I think this is the only part of the world that people can pass their examinations and after a short while they get a fail for the same paper. As you study accountancy, you will find that at times you pass two of the three subjects in a section and then after a short while, the passes are reduced to a fail. I think that is very unfair to students of accounting and it should be taken into consideration by the examination bodies so that we do not fail accountants unnecessarily. We want to produce professionals, but we must also direct the manner in which they are produced. Accountants are very important professionals in our economic development. We all know that Kenya is on the run and we need a lot of accountants and auditors for us to be able to manage our economy effectively."
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