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    "id": 769412,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/769412/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. ole Sankok",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "David Ole Sankok",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. If there are professions that we need to regulate as a House, they are building surveyors. Building surveyors have caused a lot of pain and conflict in this country because of their shoddy works. I hear that surveyors never die. They hand over their certificates and identity cards to relatives and friends who may know nothing about surveying. That is why road reserves and riparian areas are being grabbed courtesy of quack surveyors. We need to regulate any other profession as we do in the medical sector, human resource and others. I do not know why we never thought of regulating the profession of building surveyors. Building surveyors have caused a lot of conflict in our society where beacons are moved from point A to point B without any professionalism or referring to the existing maps. It has brought conflict among communities and even among brothers. A large number of our cases in the Judiciary emanates from land disputes. The land disputes come as a result of rogue surveyors. We need to have professionalism in surveying especially in a country like Kenya where we have taken up our farmlands and our grazing areas for buildings and settlement. When we take up land for settlement and we do not control the buildings, then our farmlands will continue shrinking. Very soon, we may not be able to feed our masses."
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