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    "id": 482512,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nakara",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2926,
        "legal_name": "John Lodepe Nakara",
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    "content": "construction companies. If you go to all towns in this country, the kinds of buildings we have, have been the cause of killings in our towns. We want to encourage this Authority to come up with very strong regulations to control such kinds of buildings in our urban centers. This is because you will find that in some urban centers, some buildings are substandard and as a result they cause death during construction. As I support this Bill, I want to bring to your attention the fact that some contractors are senior and they should not be charged the same across the board. There are contractors who do not have certificates while others have. Some have just joined construction business recently but when they are coming into business, you will discover that they are being charged the same fees like other businessmen who have been in this sector for a long time. Charging them Kshs25,000 is a lot of money. A young man who has just got out of school, maybe out of college and wants to start a construction company is asked to pay Kshs25,000. For such a person who has just completed college and wanted to engage in the construction business, we must have categories so that we encourage young men to be contractors and at the same time to engage in construction business. We have fake engineers in this country and we need to tame them. Having this Authority will check the kind of engineers we have in this country because some of them have no papers, they have never gone to school but they call themselves engineers. Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo can tell you that there are some guys claiming to be engineers and yet they are not even members of the Engineers Association. Having such an authority will take care of the fake engineers. It will also tell us who are trained engineers and who are not. We will encourage this Authority to have all the names of the engineers in this country for ease of accessibility and contact. Finally, we want to encourage our people to invest in construction companies. People like Turkanas who have not been in this business for long should be encouraged. We want to encourage this Authority not to exclude people who want to do business by saying that they must be engineers and have companies. That will eliminate some people from business. We want the Authority to level all people to allow them to do this business. I want to encourage the Authority to lower the charges for the youth and women so that we can have many companies in this sector. I support."
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