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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Bunyasi",
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        "legal_name": "John Sakwa Bunyasi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. While I rise to support this Bill, I would like to make a few comments. From my experience and what I have seen even while sitting in committees here in Parliament, it is important to comment. First of all, this is an integrative profession from the quick lessons I have received from Dr. Mudenyo, who is a professional in this area. It is an integrative profession. It picks on trainings in other areas as has been mentioned including quantity surveying, land valuation and perhaps even structural engineering. In essence, beyond having regular framework for them, I hope we will go upstream and look at the curriculum development of this cadre of professionals so that they can truly come out with something substantive. They should not just be backed by the law, but by substantive knowledge so that what they say is agreed to and respected. Secondly, it would be important to oblige providers of buildings particularly office and rental buildings in apartment blocks to have one of these qualified professionals managing their buildings on part time or full time as the case might be. This makes sense. Otherwise, if they all came in to inspect because of the regulatory framework that they have backing them, that would be inadequate. It is important that we beget professionalise the services so that hapless tenants feel protected when they live in these kinds of structures. One of the major concerns I have heard with these professionals particularly those under various regulatory bodies like the Institution of Surveyors of Kenya, sometimes the degree of adherence to professionalism can be very low. We have run into professionals here while I was sitting in one of the parliamentary committees who simply did things from the office or went there and adjusted depending on what the client wanted. You would wonder what their own view is. In one case, one of the leading universities which has received a service where they have hired professionals to work in the market disowned their professional saying he has not fully got the qualifications. How then did you send such a person to do a major job? This was a job related to some of the activities of the third Arm of the Government, namely, the Judiciary."
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