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    "id": 585154,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Chebet",
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        "legal_name": "Susan Kipketer Chebet",
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    "content": "safety problems like the ones we experience in Kenya when houses collapse in urban areas. When this happens, nobody takes responsibility. With a body like this, we are able to hold the technologists and the technicians responsible for such occurrences. Engineers should not fear this Authority. We are not interfering with their work in terms of design. They design and the technologists and technicians implement the designs. The technologists and technicians who are trained should be certified, so that they can participate in the construction of the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR), so that when the Chinese leave the country, they can maintain our railway lines. Secondly, the Bill has come at the right time when Kenya is working towards the Vision 2030. As we work towards that, we need to have technical support from our technicians and technologists. The Government has put a lot of money in our counties and constituencies, so that we can have technical institutes to produce technicians and technologists. If we do not have an Authority to regulate the graduates from those institutions, it is going to be a big problem. This Bill has come at the right time, so that the public can be assured that when they send their children to learn in technical institutions, they will get employment at the end. At the moment, it is very hard for this cadre of technicians and technologists to get employment in the country because they do not have a regulatory body that can certify their certificates. We have a case which has been circulated. There is a young man called Mr. Boas Muiya. He did his course at the Technical University of Kenya. In his fifth year, he could not continue because he did not see the future of that course and the university is no longer taking students of that category. If a student or students lose five years of their lives in a situation like that, then it means that that course will never be taken by Kenyans. Kenyans will lag behind even as we compare ourselves with other countries. If we measure our standards, we will always lag behind because for every engineer that we have, we need 22 people who have technical knowledge to assist them."
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