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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kobado",
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        "legal_name": "John Owuor Onyango Kobado",
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    "content": "outcome of the medical process is that even as you come in as a sick person, you expect that when you come out as an output, you will come out a healthy person - that is, having recovered your health status. In the medical profession, which is a service industry, we have the nurses playing a role and they have their own regulatory body. We have the Pharmacy and Poisons Act to control those in pharmacy. We also have the Medical Practitioners and Dentist Board Act. All those areas work together to ensure that they provide quality services. The same thing happens in the engineering field. The engineer would design and hand over to a technologist. The technologist will do his work and hand over to a technician to maintain that product in a particular condition. We need to move. The Government has done quite a lot to ensure this country attains Vision 2030. One area that is experiencing serious shortage is the engineering profession because the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) recommends that for a country to develop, there is need to have one engineer serving 2,000 citizens. In this country, we have one engineer serving 6,500 people. In China, one engineer serves 136 people and in Japan, one engineer serves 200 people. In South Africa, there is an engineer serving 2,000 people. So, we are way below - one engineer per 6,500 people. Something needs to be done urgently. The reason we want to pass this Bill is that Kenya is increasingly becoming a dumping ground for sub-standard and low quality products. We are not manufacturing anything. If you look at what happens in the streets in Kenya, you will be shocked. For instance, paper clips which are bent and produced are imported into this country. We are also importing spoons and the other day, we heard of a wheelbarrow costing Kshs109,000! Some of these things can be sorted out locally. Finally, the Engineers Board of Kenya needs to focus on what they should be doing. Section 7 of the Engineers Act tells them what they should do. They need to establish an engineering school. What they are doing by interfering with the programmes in universities and technical colleges is wrong. The courses in the universities are regulated by the Universities Act. In colleges, the courses are regulated by the Technical Industrial, Vocational and Entrepreneurship (TVET) Act. What the Engineers Board of Kenya needs to do is to establish an engineering school. That is because they are supposed to train professionals and not students in colleges. They are supposed to focus on professionals. You only become a professional after graduating from a university or a college. With those remarks, I strongly support this Bill. I would like to request and urge my colleagues to support this Bill if, indeed, we want to realise Vision 2030."
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