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    "id": 1166106,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "Educational qualification on paper is not a guarantee of leadership capacity and ability. Very many of our MCAs and our colleagues from the other House have approached us saying, “I have led these people. I have been a councillor there and became an MCA. I have led these people all this time. Why are you blocking us?” I am glad that Sen. Murkomen has come with the statistics that only 3.5per cent of Kenyans who hold degree qualification. Mr. Speaker, Sir, if we were even to put threshold because it says that Parliament shall enact a law determining the qualification, the basic threshold should concomitant with what has been the universally available level of education. If you say that we have free education from primary school to secondary school, then let it be that if we are to move further. Some people qualify to go to the universities because they got A’s. We know people who got very good marks such Cs, C+, Bs but could not afford to go to university. You might find they come from such great poverty that they have to forego going to school so that they can start doing something that gives them an income to take care of their families. Therefore, if there have been no equal opportunities in this country for everyone to attain that universally acceptable level education, then that should not be a barrier again for leadership. We should follow the expression of the will of the people in those representatives. I thank Sen. Murkomen for doing this. I know many of these leaders we talk to when around the County Assemblies and even prospective people who want to come to Parliament have really been saying, “do not limit us. If my people feel that I can lead them; if Article 38 says I have the right to vie and to stand for election, please do not limit that.”"
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