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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. The Bill proposes the establishment of three bodies. Who will fund, staff and manage them? After this, we need to think outside the box and come up with a platform. Who will administer this continuous professional development in the name of continuous professional assessment? We must look at it in the insurance sector globally. The other bit is public access, consumer protection and education. We must also look at it. The other one is a dispute resolution mechanism. We must come up with arbitration. It is one of the things that needs to be looked into, but it must also be captured within this Bill and other groups so that as we go to the public, this is done."
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"content": "Otherwise, I support this Bill, which is critical. I pray that once it is enacted, it goes through the other stages. Kenyans will benefit from this reformist Bill. I support it."
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"content": " Very well said. Member for Kaiti, Hon. Kimilu."
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to contribute to this important Bill. Before I contribute, I thank the Member for Molo, Hon. Kimani, for coming up with such an important Bill. We need to make things right where we are in our country now. I support the Insurance Professionals Bill (National Assembly Bill No. 13 of 2024) because it is very important. It will make things straight in our country. Once it becomes a law, we will strengthen the sector and make it gain a lot of support and weight. It will come up with a good measure to ensure the sector gets rid of quacks who sometimes pose as insurance professionals. Once this Bill becomes an Act of Parliament, it will ensure you meet a certain criterion before becoming an insurance professional. This will ensure that quacks will not join this sector pretending to be insurance professionals. Once this Bill becomes a law, it will also educate Kenyans. There is one case I handled in my constituency last week. A guy took an insurance cover for his car. After an accident, he has been taken to Savings and Credit Cooperative Societies (SACCOs) for more than a year without being paid. When this Bill becomes law, some of these small things will be avoided because things will be right. We will not take our clients to SACCOS. The Bill will also empower the insurance sector and make it look better than it is now. The Bill will help the insurance sector to gain... When people are trained to a certain level, they will have certificates. People will no longer hide and pretend that what they are doing is right when they are not doing the right thing. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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"content": "When the Bill becomes law, it will help the insurance business to be recognised. I have gone through the Bill and realised that globally, countries like France and the UK have the same Bill. This Bill is important. We can go somewhere to benchmark. A country like Kenya needs to come up with such a law. In fact, this Bill has come at the right time. In unison, I urge all my colleagues to pass this Bill to become law so that we can help our country. The Bill will also help to grow the insurance profession, just like we have Bills that cater to the legal and medical professions. Con men and con women will be repulsed. If I can remember, there was a financial institution where someone was conned. When they tried to make a follow-up on their money – they had been assured by the organisation that their money was insured – they lost it because the institution lacked structures and offices. Therefore, having good structures in our financial institutions will help this country. I can see time is running out, and I want my colleagues to contribute. I support."
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"content": " Very well. The Member for Kitui West, Hon. Nyenze."
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to air my views on this great Bill on insurance. Let me take this opportunity to also congratulate the Member of Parliament for Molo, Hon. Kimani, for bringing such a Bill. This Bill will make provisions for the establishment of an insurance institute in Kenya that will have an examination body for insurance professionals. It will also have a board in charge of examinations, registration and regulation of standards and procedures. By doing so, the board will offer checks and balances to the institution. Therefore, the institution will be run according to the established standards, and it will regulate the insurance sector. In doing so, it will act like any other professional body for other fields like engineers, marketers, lawyers and human resource personnel. All these professions have institutes that offer checks and balances. It is also important to note that professionals will be issued practising certificates from this institution, which will help them register. That will also ensure that people who are not disciplined are not registered and de-registered through a disciplinary committee that will ensure such professionals follow the rules and procedures the institute will have set out. We have a lot of con men, quacks, and brokers who are not serious about the insurance work. They found their way into the insurance industry without the requisite qualifications. They have made people even lose trust in insurers with qualifications in the insurance industry, especially with investments. Most Kenyans doubt whether they will receive their dues when they invest through insurance. However, such an institution will give Kenyans confidence to insure their vehicles or even invest with insurance companies. They will know there is a body where they can report issues and one that ensures discipline. I know of a person who insured their vehicle with an insurance company, believing they were fully covered, only to be turned down after the car had an accident. They later discovered they were not insured because the money had not been remitted. Such an institution will ensure checks and balances and give people confidence. This is a very good body that will assure the insurers that things are being done correctly. With those many remarks, I support the Bill."
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"content": " Thank you. Member for Kuresoi South, you are not visible on my screen."
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