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"content": "Sorry, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I was disrupted by the Chairman! The registration of this body will take into consideration all the defects which have been in the professional bodies of accountants, engineers and doctors. This is a Bill which has come after the formation of all these professional bodies. Therefore, we are not inventing America. We have examples to go by. We have the existence of other institutions to go by. Since we have these institutions in place, we must improve this Bill. We cannot just copy, for example, what is in the profession of accountants, doctors and so on, and replicate it in this Bill. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to agree with Mr. Mungatana who said that young people must be given provision in this particular Bill, so that they are not excluded. This includes those who are undergoing training in this field. In the account's profession, for example, they have accounts clerks who are junior accountants, but they are recognised in the profession. This Bill must give recognition step by step, so that it does not just recognise the highest qualified professionals, but it must also recognise young Kenyans who also want to become professional procurement officers. This will come up in the amendments, which will be presented before this House by the Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, this is a very straight forward Bill. It is an improvement of the Public Procurement and Disposal Act. I do not want to dwell on it any longer. However, it takes two people to engage in a corrupt act. The Public Procurement and Disposal Act was only dealing with public officers and it left out a wide and important sector, the private sector. It is the private sector which corrupts public officers. If we leave professionals in the private sector without any regulation to govern them, and we regulate officers in the public sector, we will not cure the disease. We should look at the root cause of the disease, not the symptoms. The root cause of the disease is the appetite of people in the private sector to get wealthy quickly and, therefore, corrupt officers in the public sector. Therefore, this Bill will treat a very important lacuna. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, my Committee supports this Bill 100 per cent. We will be very happy if the Minister also gave his support, so that we do not take a long time debating something which is very obvious. However, those hon. Members who want to bring amendments, including my Committee, will do so. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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