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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nakara",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Lodepe Nakara",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this Bill but I want us to take into consideration what Hon Eng. Gumbo presented before us, so that we do not engage in another war outside this House. We have some engineers here who can guide this Bill, so that it is what we want it to be. We need this Bill to go through. We need to have in place standards that are acceptable nationally and internationally. We have many technologists and technicians and we need to export them to other countries. Therefore, we need the courses to be offered recognised internationally, so that we can export our technologists and technicians to other countries. The curriculum that is going to guide technologists and technicians must be approved by the existing body that is experienced, for example the Engineers Registration Board (ERB) and others. As we guide young technologists and technicians they need to understand what they are going to do in their institutions. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the institutions that are going to train these people must be registered. This is because there are institutions that are offering these courses yet they do not have the machinery and tools for practical lessons. As much as we need this Bill to go through, we need these young men to be trained. We must ensure that the institutions we are going to give the opportunity to train young men are registered and that they have all the requisite machinery. I am happy that this Bill establishes the Board which is going to ensure that the institutions to offer these courses have all the machinery that is required. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, there are some students who sat for the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examination but missed a mark to join the university and enroll for an engineering course. So that we do not lose such brains, we need to have institutions which these students can join and grow to join bigger institutions. Some have the desire to be engineers but by bad luck they missed one mark to get admitted to university. We must appreciate that they have the desire and knowledge to be engineers. We need to have colleges that can upgrade students who have potential to be engineers. Technicians and technologists can be self-employed. If you go to the villages, many guys who do small jobs are the ones who went to polytechnics and became carpenters, plumbers and The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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