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    "id": 264154,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Khalwale",
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to present a petition on behalf of the students of engineering at Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology (MMUST), Kenyatta University (KU), and Egerton University. In this petition, the students are seeking to address the issue of failure of accreditation by the Kenya Engineers Registration Board (KERB). They raise the issue of lack of enough qualified lecturers and lack of workshops, equipment and laboratories for learning. The petitioners pray as follows: 1. They would like to get accreditation by the KERB. 2. Their colleagues who were trained, examined and qualified in these universities be allowed to sit the KERB exam so as to be found to be fit or otherwise to practice engineering in Kenya. 3. The universities be compelled forthwith to employ qualified and fit lecturers. 4. The universities be equipped with laboratories and workshops in line with the specifications and directives of the KERB. 5. Through the Speaker of the National Assembly, the KERB be compelled to set a clear criterion and standard of training module for the purpose of vetting graduates of engineering for admission into the Board in line with other professional boards like the Law Society of Kenya (LSK) and the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Board (KMP&DB). 6. That the Commission for Higher Education (CHE), the Joint Admissions Board (JAB) and the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology be compelled to ensure that all universities offering engineering meet the minimum quality assurance for training, examining and qualifying engineering students. The petitioners will forever pray. They have signed this petition, 198 of them from the three universities. I pray on their behalf."
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