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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "Let us look at all the professionals and consider them. You may have gone to the army and served your country. You have gone through training in the military from one stage to another and get professional training. However, because it is not formally called a university degree, you are told that you cannot run for a political seat. Somebody who has risen to the position of a major or lieutenant general without formal degree qualification are told that they do not qualify to be a Member of Parliament. Back then, a person who has risen through the police ranks to become the Inspector General of police did not require a university degree, maybe now they do. How then can such a person not be qualified to run for a political seat? I would like to convince my colleagues that the qualifications that one must have a university degree is ridiculous, unfair and creating a club of few privileged who access leadership against the provisions of Article 38 of the Constitution. What about those who are already in Parliament? What happens to such a provision? You tell people that you must have a degree to join Parliament, but we know that Tom Mboya did not have a university degree. He had a diploma from a university in London. He went to Oxford University where he earned his well-recognized diploma. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, Tom Mboya is the man who wrote the Sessional Paper No.10 of 1965. We may never agree with the sessional Paper No.10 of 1965 because of the inequalities that came with it. However, he was qualified that he is the one who organized airlifts with President J.F. Kennedy to take hundreds of Kenyans to the United States of America to acquire degrees they came back to develop this country; including the Barrack Obama Senior, Professor George Saitoti and many other renowned professionals in this country who went through that programme. The man who did that had barely a diploma. He did not have a university degree. Tom Mboya’s footprints in the history of this country are forever recognized."
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