{"id":546557,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/546557/?format=json","text_counter":1031,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":24,"legal_name":"Nicholas Gumbo","slug":"nicholas-gumbo"},"content":"As the late Lee Kuan Yew, my hero in governance of Singapore said, countries that attain meaningful progress strive for a fair and not a welfare society. This is what this Bill has attained today. As professionals of Kenya and you are a professional yourself, we have always complained that we cannot use the same law to procure a toothpick as you use for technical services. This is what has been distinguished and it has come out very clearly. Most importantly, for a long time our country had become a mere playground for foreigners even people with seriously questionable qualifications. In my practice life, I remember as a young engineer, I saw somebody who was a dairy supervisor in Europe coming here as an adviser. He was in fact a milking line supervisor coming here as a professional yet we have veterinarians in this country. This law has---"}