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    "id": 4536,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Bett",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Roads",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Franklin Kipng'etich Bett",
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    "content": " Madam Temporary Deputy Chair, I would not have wished to contradict what the hon. Member is saying but my only worry is that it is going to be limiting. If you look at that particular clause, it says:- “The Board may, where it considers appropriate, co-opt persons by virtue of their knowledge or expertise in specific areas to be members of its committees”. Engineers are also human beings. They will also be handling issues that concern humanity. Therefore, they may wish to co-opt, if it is a personnel or gender issue, an appropriate person for that purpose, for that moment. So, if we limit it to: “Provided that the person co-opted to the Board shall be registered engineers”, then the engineers will have no benefit at all from the contribution of non-engineers in matters which could be related to personnel management or gender. Therefore, I want to plead with the hon. Member that we retain it the way it is, so that there is some freedom for the committee. It may be something to do with accounting. So they may wish to co-opt the chairman of the Certified Public Accountants Kenya (CPA-K) to discuss with them that particular issue. I would want to persuade the Member to allow the clause to remain as it is in the Bill."
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