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    "id": 585183,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/585183/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Khamisi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Mishi Juma Khamisi",
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    "content": "The ERB has just recognised a few people in the engineering profession, and left out the rest of the people with all their professional qualifications. I know that there was an attempt to amend the Engineers Act 2011 to ensure that it accommodated other cadre of people, but there was a lot of hostility to the extent that engineers have called technologists spanner boys. This is not something we cannot agree on, or even accept. Be they called “spanner boys” or by any other name, they are Kenyans, have undergone professional training and have to be recognised. Section 6A(3) of the Engineers Act, 2011 contravenes Chapter Four of the Constitution of Kenya and the Bill Rights. It states that one has to be a corporate member of the Institution of Engineers of Kenya (IEK). You have to be a corporate member for you to be recognised by the Engineers Registration Board (ERB). But the Constitution says that one should not be forced to be a member of a club or an organisation without his or her consent."
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