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    "id": 954756,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/954756/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": "They have good recommendations. We must commend them. I want to highlight a few things. I want to agree with something that was raised earlier by Hon. Mbadi in terms of some purported amendment to the Accountants Act to remove student accountants from being registered. When we were amending the Accountants Act those days, we realised that what people think of student accountant is anyone who is not qualified to be an accountant. Some of them are very senior accountants in Government corporations but they have not passed the final exam. Because there was no mechanism of regulating them, they would do all their rogue business and pretend that they are not regulated by anyone. It is at that point that we said that we put everyone who has either qualified or is in the pipeline to qualify within the ambit of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Kenya (ICPAK), so that you can regulate them through their training and even after they have qualified. I am glad because the Committee has also seen the sense of that and suggested that the amendment by the National Treasury should be removed. We will strengthen it even further by bringing in ICPAK which is the regulator of all accountants to have a big say at not only those who have qualified but also those who are in the pipeline of being qualified."
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