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    "id": 1166099,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "I support this for the position of MPs and not for governor and President positions. Those are higher thresholds of decisions that are made individually but these others are collegiate institutions. That three per cent that Sen. Murkomen will sit in the County or National Assembly with other leaders and vote on issues collectively. They take collegiate responsibility of their decisions at that level. The value of that education then can be either compensated or assisted by those who they are with. However, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, express executive authority is different and it is really a Kenyan thing. To be President of the United States of America (USA), the biggest democracy in the world, the only requirement is to be an American citizen. There is no academic requirement. As long as you are a voter who is 21 years, you can become the President of USA and command the biggest economy in the world. We have put those restrictions and they have brought about what Sen. Murkomen is talking about. We have people who have walked around with degrees, but have no classmates. No one can tell you that I went to school with so and so and cannot even show a photograph from school. No one says that a certain person taught them because they have gone and procured papers. These papers are everywhere. For the executive positions of governors and deputy governors, it is necessary and it would be good to have that filter. I do not want to call it a filter because if you become Governor of Laikipia County, for instance, there is no university degree that will make you a good governor. You are in charge of water, health, finance and infrastructure. Which degree covers all of those? You are not going to play a technical position. What we need is leadership that you can be able to get the best engineer, water person, doctors. You do not have to be a doctor to be in charge of Ministry of Health."
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