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    "id": 845022,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. To a large extent, I concur with what the man has said. The accounting sector needs regulation because it is true, as the Chair of the Committee said, that there are many pretenders, people who call themselves accountants yet some are not qualified at all. Some probably did the old-time book keeping where they were shown the pink, green and white paper and where to file each transaction and where to post them. I am very much opposed to some of the provisions by the Chair. For instance, as the Leader of the Minority Party has said, I worked as an accountant for almost ten years rising to a level of a deputy financial controller, but I was never a member of ICPAK. Therefore, we have been doing great injustice to young students or young Kenyans who are training today as accountants, who can progress to be employed. If, for instance, we enact Clause 69E, that says that an entity in either private or public sector shall not employ a person to practice accountancy unless the person is a member of the institute… Lawyers are only not allowed to practise law, if they are not members of their professional body. We cannot say that an accountant will not be employed if they are not members of the institute. It means that I would never have been employed because I never joined the institute. I am, therefore, very opposed to the provisions of the chair because this will not only deny Kenyans who are looking for opportunities to get employed, unless they subscribe The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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