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    "id": 1078511,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
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        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": "and people voted and signed in the Lobby that they want a degree. Immediately after that, there was a delegation. I remember I was summoned by the former President and asked what I had done. I was accused of all manner of things and that I had rigged them out. Eventually, he said much as we are prescribing at this point, there are only a couple of months to the general election and it will look unfair that we are almost doing it to block people. Can we give people time to go to the university? I believe that is what happened with the 11th Parliament. People had been given time. As the Committee looks at this Petition, I also want them to consider that following the enactment of that Act, there are people who have invested their money and time to go to school because they now want to join parliamentary or county assembly leadership. If then it is seen that we make a law and then we reverse it so that the donkeys can catch up with the horses, we will never make a law that will be obeyed. This is because the people will not have a predictability that this law will hold into the future. They will think that we can always lobby for a law to be changed when they are not compliant. I think that should not be the basis of this House. We cannot be legislating in vain. So, we encourage them to go to school and think of 2027. Let them give an opportunity for those who have prepared themselves to participate in the 2022 elections in compliance with the existing law, but not to change the law to suit those who have failed to comply."
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