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    "id": 585075,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Limo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Joseph Kirui Limo",
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    "content": "Engineering Board or practitioners in engineering to guard their interest and face this Bill with an open mind. What we are enacting here is going to break or make the lives of many students who are studying technology engineering. We have to clearly understand the difference between engineers and technologists. There are a lot of road designs which are made by our engineers. However, those roads can stay for 30 years without being constructed because we do not have people to construct them. We only have designers who design good roads. However, to implement the designs, we have to wait for the Chinese, Italians or Israelis. This country, for a very long time, has not invested heavily on training technologists and technicians to implement the designs. As we deliberate on this Bill, we need to very clearly differentiate between engineers and technologists. We must ensure both are relevant and given a lot of emphasis. As Members of Parliament, we are emphasising on building technical training institutes in our constituencies. Where will those students go if we do not have a regulatory body? The proposed Board will be self-sustaining. It will not cost an extra shilling to the Government of Kenya. It is going to charge its members and bring order in the management of engineering technologists. So, when I hear some Members opposing it--- I want to call upon the Members to understand the purpose and objective of this Bill so that we support it not because we like it, but because it is important for the prosperity of this country. We are supposed to achieve Vision 2030 when we have enough people who are going to implement all the designs we have. It is worrying that when we are building, most of the furniture is imported, while we are supposed to make them in this country. If we pass this Bill, it is going to bring standardization. We are going to manufacture most of the materials in Kenya. We are going to industrialise this country just like any other country in the world. So, I want to urge Members: Let us support this Bill to help our students to be relevant. It is going to make technology courses relevant. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I support."
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