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    "id": 1129004,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1129004/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Pokot South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David Pkosing",
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        "legal_name": "Losiakou David Pkosing",
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    "content": "person to qualify to become a director-general. We thought that is punitive and a bit discriminatory and actually designed for some few people. We said we cannot do that as a country. We better move all of us together differently. If you leave it at 15, it will be 48 years. If you remove five years from 48, you still qualify to be a director-general at 40 years for either the Kenya Rural Roads Authority (KeRRA), the Kenya Urban Roads Authority (KURA) or the Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA). That is more reasonable than waiting until when you are 48 or about 50 for you to qualify. So, my Committee, through public participation, saw that this is reasonable so that we can provide for equality and we also remove discrimination. If you look at our constitution in terms of rights and discriminations, you cannot discriminate other people because of age, race or gender. We thought that this is one of them. That is why, as I said earlier, we have an example in the same department where some of the DGs acted for more than five years because they will not have qualified to be appointed as director-generals."
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