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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Mwaura",
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        "legal_name": "Isaac Maigua Mwaura",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr Temporary Speaker Sir. I rise to support the Amendment by Sen. Murkomen. There has been a lot of complaints lately from all our political supporters that there is no way you have a situation where if you do not have a degree, you cannot be a Member of Parliament. It has not been proven scientifically that when you have a degree, you are a better legislator. I know for sure this parliamentary business is a rather middle-class engagement because there is a lot of English being spoken. Even without that qualification, we have still ended up having educated people. The last time I counted, out of 349 Members of the National Assembly, about 105 had a degree. That threshold is much higher in the Senate. You therefore do not need a law to compel Kenyans to elect Members who have gone to school. You will end up having people having fake degrees just to qualify to be a Senator or a Member of the National Assembly or a Member of the County Assembly (MCAs). It is also true that we are increasingly seeing younger generation of people who have gone to school being elected as MCAs. For example, we have had doctors such as Dr. Mbae from Nakuru County. We also have engineers and economists like my friend, Solomon, who is MCA for Ndenderu. There are many people who are qualified to become MCAs and have been elected when they have a degree or so. This is a matter of time not legislation. It is not really a question of legislation. In any case, if you are to compare in the corporate world, the late Bob Collymore never had a university degree, yet he was one of the celebrated Chief Executive Officers (CEO) of the biggest Telecommunication Company that is Safaricom."
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