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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Munene",
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        "legal_name": "Mary Wambui Munene",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to support this Bill. We know some engineers do not want other people to be recognised. We need to have more technical universities in this country, which can train people to get degrees. We should also regulate them, so that our young people who are now in universities learning about engineering can be accommodated; they will catch up with old engineers. We have so many young people who are doing engineering courses in our universities and technical institutions. We also have qualified technicians who are doing carpentry work. The reason why we are saying this is because of technical institutions in Malaysia. I went to one of the technical universities in Malaysia and saw the way they are helping their young people. When they graduate, they go to a board and they are given certificates which show that they are qualified engineers. So when they leave the universities, they get jobs. As Hon. Gumbo has said, some engineers do not want to see young people come up. I do not know what they fear. This is because we pay a lot of money for our students to go to universities and be engineers and technicians, so that we can sustain ourselves in this country. When we want to build roads and big factories, we can use our people instead of getting people from outside. We are not saying that they are not good. We also want our people to get money from our country. This is because foreigners come with their people and give our children small jobs. Chinese who are not engineers get more money than engineers in Kenya. This is because the engineer in Kenya is not registered as an engineer. I thank the Mover of this Bill. Our Government needs to upgrade more technical schools to universities, so that they can train our people on how to make cars. We can see some people trying to make aircraft. If those people are trained and sponsored by the Government, we can actually make our own aircraft and vehicles. That is why I support this Bill. I know our people are going to be happy. Since we are the ones who make laws, it is better to regulate this sector, so that our people can be accommodated. I ask my colleagues to support this Bill. We also ask our engineers to help young people come up, so that they will be there in the future. If they are not going to be there, then we will not have enough engineers. Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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