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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mule",
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        "legal_name": "Stephen Mutinda Mule",
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    "content": "We are not just talking of a normal engineer. I want to be very clear on this. We are talking of a doctor transformed to be an engineer. He will not be at the level of a doctor as Dr. Pukose, for instance. But on the basis of qualification in medicine, that is the person we are looking at. In any profession, you will find some people committing offences. We have provided a very clear mechanism in Clause 19 on how to deal with offences and the appeal process. I do not want to be in a profession which is made of people with impunity. Clause 21 provides for clear direction on removal of names from the register. Anyone found culpable of negligence or lack of professionalism will be deregistered. This morning, I heard a debate in this House in which some Members were saying that Members should not be removed from committees. If you cannot follow the laws of this country, you do not need to be in leadership. You do not even need to be in the leadership and profession of biomedical engineering. That is why we are very clear on this. We are putting it into law to make sure that those found guilty will be removed from the register, the way lawyers like Hon. Gichigi do. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, as a lawyer you know there are limits which you cannot go beyond. This is the only way we are going to make sure that people adhere to the rule of law. I have been in the medical field for the last 15 years. It is a very tricky field where technology is changing day-in, day-out. Some of the local companies cannot get the manpower in this country. So, we want to give clear provisions on how foreign engineers can come into the country and assist in training Kenyans. But they need to do that within the provisions of this proposed law. Part IV of the Bill provides for qualifications for private practice to make sure that the multinational companies which come into this country train our brothers and sisters on the different technologies they are trying to introduce into the Kenyan market. At the same time, those foreign biomedical engineers and institutions will have to acquire some practising certificate and annual licence."
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