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    "id": 1166108,
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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": "I insist for the seat of the Governor and the President there needs to be some threshold. It should all be an aptitude test. We have had people here such as governors in their last term and the other term who have papers, but there no education in them. Some were even struggling to read. Would you rather have that person who is struggling to read but has a document that says he has gone to school and he has been given the power to read or have a person who is a Certified Public Accountant(CPA-K), who has done up to Section six part three of CPAs? A pilot who is flying the Dream Liner today is not qualified to become an MP. Have you have ever sat at a cockpit and look at the calculation, the mathematics involved the physics yet, that person is not qualified to be an MP. I think it is a legislation that does not make sense at all. We need to check for the issue of inability to interact, communicate, to read and understand and translate it to the people that you are serving. Even as you do that, I think it is upon us well to think about how we increase access to education. I think the Government that comes in the Kenya Kwanza Government must make sure there is accessible universal education up until university. When that is done for a period of five to 10 years, then we can put that as the threshold. That would be because the education was available; you could have gone there for free, but you chose and decided not to. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we have County Assemblies that debates such intricate issue of their people that they allow even vernacular for them to be able to debate. Why do they allow that? It is because leadership is not eloquence in English or knowing methali. It is being able to have a vision, to be trusted by your people to translate it to them and to lead them towards their destination. I will not mention certain Women Representatives in this country who people thought were not literate, but if you go to their people, that is the leader they want. If you bring a Professor versus that lady, they will choose that lady and the people choosing her are very much educated. You will be surprised. I think the people of Kenya have had a way of correcting. In those very marginalized areas incidentally, despite that requirement not having been there before they have brought us some of the most educated people. The highest number of doctors and people with masters in the National Assembly are from marginalized areas. They are from the North Eastern and Eastern parts of this country. We have challenges with those from urban areas. When you see who is coming from the urban areas in terms of just that document, there is a disconnect. Therefore, Kenyans will be able to correctly choose. Yes, there is professor so and so, but there is also this person whom we have been with in the trenches. This person has helped us when we have had issues of famine and our children. This is the leader we want. Therefore, let that decision, sovereignty and right in Article 38 be not limited to only three per cent of Kenyans. Let it be available to all Kenyans in those offices. Let the rest of us who feel that we have studied; we have a lot of qualifications and multiple papers go for Governor and President and the rest when they get there they can join us. For now, let us not limit the representative offices of MP and MCA."
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