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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Kanyua",
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        "legal_name": "Priscilla Nyokabi Kanyua",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support the Bill and to really congratulate my colleague and friend, Hon. Cecilia Ngetich, for this particular piece of legislation. It has not been easy. She has conveyed consultative forums and sessions to take Members through the Bill and I really want to congratulate the Member for this step that we are now on. In the House Business Committee, we have proposed that Private Members who bring legislations like this that cure a legal lacuna are invited to the assent session and the pen that the President uses to assent to the Bill is given to the Member like Hon. Cecilia who has brought a legislation like this. More importantly, when awards are being given in this county, Members like Hon. Cecilia are considered for a Moran or a Spear or whichever of the other awards. It is indeed, an innovative law that we are discussing today. In supporting this Bill and looking at the legal gaps, I have looked at the various elements that the law provides and we do not have any provisions that relate to engineering technologists and technicians in Kenya. The way the country is going now is to professionalise every industry. Every industry needs to be professionalized. Recently, we had an engagement like this when we were professionalising the media and we passed in this Parliament the Media Council of Kenya Act. It is time now to look at the engineering technologists and technicians. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, in professionalization we cover issues around the board that will be doing the registration. The Bill covers that one. Most importantly, and this is an area of challenge for Hon. Cecilia, the Bill must cover training. You cannot have a profession where training is not defined. One element of a profession is the entry criteria; that entry criteria needs to be detailed. When we were doing the Media Council of Kenya Bill, it was such a challenge because we had comedians who are in the media industry and yet we were trying to professionalise it. So, that issue of training and entry qualifications is critical. With regard to practise and code of conduct those have been well covered."
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