{"id":1083183,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1083183/?format=json","text_counter":422,"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"},"content":"If we do not want MPs and MCAs to have degree certificates, why then do we want a chairman to have one? Why do you want to set a bar much higher for a chairman than for an MP or an MCA? So, let us be consistent especially on issues of principle. If we do not want MPs to have degrees, then a chairman should not have a degree. What will they discuss that is much greater than what the MPs will be discussing in this House? Having said this, I want to indicate that, as I am speaking, my dear sister Hon. Eve Obara is telling me this is not correct and I have the Bill. She does not have one because it clearly states that the chairman should possess a minimum of a bachelor’s degree from a university recognised in Kenya. Another issue which is very clear and on record in this House is that people have called for the lowering of a degree to a certificate…"}