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    "id": 769438,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/769438/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ngugi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13338,
        "legal_name": "Joseph Nduati Ngugi",
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    "content": "Kigali, Dar-es -Salaam and South Africa, most of the buildings are designed by people who are trained here. I know buildings have collapsed, but I want to assure Kenyans that those buildings are not done by qualified or registered professionals. Acts of Parliament are very clear that if you construct a building and it collapses, you will be denied your licence. I am sure there is no Kenyan who would like to lose his licence. Most of them depend on the licences for their livelihoods. So, anytime you are doing a building, I want to urge you to use qualified professionals. Various Acts of Parliament provide clear guidelines about what should happen in case a building collapses. They outline how that matter should be dealt with. For most of the buildings, the surveyors work in Government buildings. We have not had them in the private sector. Most of them are trained as land surveyors and they venture into building surveyors. There has been no law regulating their activities. You find that most of them have been working in the Government, maintaining our buildings, preparing the relevant schedules on how maintenance is supposed to be done and preparing leases. But there has never been regulation even to guide how their work will be done. It is good that we have now come up with this Bill, which I support, so that we can regulate them."
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