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"speaker_name": "Mr. Kimunya",
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"content": "We have witnessed situations in this country where getting any two professionals, for example, engineers, accountants or lawyers and telling them to merge and form a huge partnership to attract multinational business will be met with reluctance based on âI cannot trust my partner.â As a result, most of the firms have remained small and cannot compete in Kenya, leave alone within the East African region, the COMESA or globally basis. With the opening up of all the barriers that can be put locally, our people face the risk of being declared extinct by the coming in of huge practitioners from the West and North and opening their offices here. Our people will never be able to compete with them. We can see it very clearly on all the jobs that are advertized and the tenders that are being won. It is the big corporations that win, because our people are very small. The turnovers that are being requested; that you have must have done a turnover or a certain thing for you to apply for this job, become a big problem. I believe that this Bill will sort this out so that we can now start syndicating and bringing together the various stakeholders and tell them that the law is there for them. We should ask them why does partnership 1, 2, 3 and 4 not team up through the limited liability partnership framework to create a mega partnership of engineers or accountants to respond to the regional needs and demand that is currently there, instead of just waiting for foreigners to come and fill it up."
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