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    "id": 768886,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/768886/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Mercy Gakuya",
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        "legal_name": "Mercy Wanjiku Gakuya",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I support the Building Surveyors Bill, 2017. Building surveyors are barely recognized. They cover a wide range starting with design, construction, maintenance, repair and the general supervision. In most urban areas or cities, people just construct buildings. Other than Government buildings, any other common citizen who is constructing a building is not aware of building surveyors. When the board is in place, the profession will be made known to the public. This will reduce incidents of buildings collapsing. Buildings collapse because proper measures are not put in place. If we provide that for any building to be constructed we must engage the services of building surveyors, starting from the design, buildings will not collapse. This will ensure that we have organised cities and habitable buildings. In most of our estates, there is no controlled development. In the absence of controlled development, there is no order. In our estates, you will find seven-storey buildings, bungalows and other types of buildings. If the seven-storey building happens to collapse, it endangers the whole zone and even the other houses. I support the proposed board. With the board in place, in the next few years, our urban areas and cities will be different. If we ensure that things are done differently and correctly during the implementation period, things will improve. We will, at least, have positive change. At the moment, we never know when a building will collapse. We keep waiting for the news so that we can react. But we need to act. The Buildings Surveyors Board will act accordingly instead of reacting. We need to move from reacting to acting. If we act accordingly, we will be able to plan for the next few years in terms of how our estates should be constructed. Kenyans should be engaging the board so that they do not do things in a hurry. We should do things at the time they are needed. We need to be very careful when planning in Nairobi City because it is a residential and an economic city. It also happens to be an international city. It is everything. If we do not regulate the profession of building surveyors, Nairobi will not be an organised city. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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