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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Chanzu",
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        "legal_name": "Yusuf Kifuma Chanzu",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute. I agree with this Motion in principle because it is a good idea. We need to have some kind of harmony. The emerging of universities in this country like Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology and the rest has helped this country to develop. It has created a situation where we need some kind of harmonization or standardization. You will find somebody who did not even study engineering before, but he goes to a university somewhere and comes back with a postgraduate degree in engineering. I think this has defeated the purpose and that is why you saw last year the board in charge of registering engineers found it difficult to register some of the people who had qualified from universities. Therefore, we need to have some kind of harmony because we are talking about a bloated public service. We are in an era of reforms but it does not mean that if you create something now, you cannot subtract it by removing something which is obsolete or which has outlived its usefulness. I therefore, believe we must have standards because even the colleagues themselves – I disagree with what hon. (Eng.) Gumbo said, but the argument was different. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, when you look at the qualifications from these universities - there is electrical engineering at Moi University - universities these days produce some of the best engineers. There are old engineers from the University of Nairobi, but the kind of criteria used to register them currently is different. If you go to the university boards, there is a big problem there. Some of them are highly qualified but they cannot be registered by the board. Therefore, we need to have a body to set up, regulate, maintain and uphold standards bearing in mind that it is a time for reforms and they must be continuous. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, if you look at the Teachers Service Commission (TSC), there are some teachers who were employed recently, but some teachers who qualified much earlier were left out. The reasons given were that the curriculum used to train them did not match the standard of exams set. So, the scoring in examinations was low. Those teachers were left out because we did not have proper criteria for assessing them. Therefore, if there is something known in advance to be the The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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