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    "id": 820973,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 376,
        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
        "slug": "millie-odhiambo-mabona"
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I think Hon. Mwaniki and Hon. T.J Kajwang’ are consulting on these issues because they are lawyers. I also suspect they are thinking that this will proceed to tomorrow or any other day. I am sure they will give their contributions then. That is such a weighty issue that you cannot purport to liberalise the training of lawyers. I went to the New York University after my degree in law at the University of Nairobi (UoN). Even after getting my Masters form New York University, I would not be allowed to practise in the US until I went through another rigorous set of exams by one certifying body, not by every Tom, Dick and Harry in the USA. I do not know what it is with Kenya that wants to over- liberalise university training and education, especially professional certification. I am seeing other professionals bringing Bills where they are getting one body to certify. We, lawyers, are being told to liberalise and get people training us in River Road. I will vehemently oppose this because, as you know, it is not easy to get a law degree. It is not just something. I know we have become very corrupt as Kenya, unfortunately. But, we will not extend that corruption even into matters of education. Sometimes when I pass and see the way we have put up private universities - I will not mention which one. The other day just around Nairobi, not Nairobi, as I was going for the graduation of my security assistant who did his degree recently, I passed somewhere towards Thika and I saw a place with a whole university that does not even qualify to be a high school. We need to be serious. As much as I know we need to increase our education, we should not be at the level that we used to laugh at one of our African countries that would offer degrees that are very questionable. Kenya has distinguished itself in terms of quality education. Again, on the Civil Procedures Act, I am very happy for providing for the Rules and Procedures Committee. I was not happy with Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA) in the recent past but, because it is the only women’s organisation that also represents women lawyers, it would be good if we included it; not just the Law Society of Kenya (LSK). If that is not possible it should provide that the two of the three people that are going to be nominated by the LSK be women. That is because all the other people that are going to be nominated by the other agencies are, almost always, men. It would be good if two of them are women. In terms of the Law of Contract, I have a big issue about the capping. I will be seeking issues with the LSK just to be clear. I had a lot of issues including provisions on a law that removes the death penalty from the Kenya Defence Forces Act. It seeks to provide alternatives to the death penalty. We are not doing justice when we bring these many pieces. It is high time we came up with a law that regulates how we push miscellaneous amendments, otherwise I am feeling 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."
}