KETRB launches engineering services at Eldoret Huduma Centre

BY EKUWAM SYLVESTER AND FREDRICK MARITIM-KNA 

The Kenya Engineering Technology Registration Board (KETRB) has launched registration and licensing services at Eldoret Huduma Centre for engineering technologists and technicians to enhance efficiency and accessibility up to the grassroots.

The service will be avail able through a collaboration with Huduma Kenya. Speaking during the launch, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Huduma Kenya Ben Kai Chilumo said the move would ensure that engineering services are brought close to the clients.

“KETRB is now officially in our Huduma centres and today we were signing the service level agreement and officially launching their first day offering services on our platform,” he said.

He said the programme was undertaken to bring on board as many ministries, departments, and agencies (MDAs) as possible to bring services closer to Kenyans and ensure access to a simplified citizen-centric service.

Chilumo called upon other MDAs that have not yet deployed their services to Huduma centres due to insufficient staff to make use of Huduma universal agents who would ensure their presence without necessarily having to deploy their staff. 

KETRB acting CEO Kigo Florence said the reason for partner ing with Huduma Kenya is because most of their clients, members and stu dents were unaware of their board and therefore this would efficiently accelerate and streamline service de livery for them.

She highlighted that KTRB is a professional body that undertakes licensing and registration of engineering technologists and technicians in the country.

“We register them as a professional body so that we can be able to monitor how the work is being done at various engineering sites out there in the industry, and ensure they have requisite expertise to do,” she noted.

They also monitor the employers, who should work with the registered engineering technologists and technicians.

According to KETRB, their services are now available across 10 Huduma centres in Garissa, Eldoret, Meru, Makueni, Mombasa, Makadara, Nyeri, Bomet, Kakamega and Kisumu Huduma Centres.

The Board was established in 2016 to set standards for engineering technologists and technicians, register and issue licenses to qualified people as per the provision of the Engineering Technology Act No 23 of 2016 Part II Section 3. (1).