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    "id": 1166167,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1166167/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Mwaura",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13129,
        "legal_name": "Isaac Maigua Mwaura",
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    "content": "Let us have an honest and robust debate about this issue but I do not think that just simply having an academic qualification makes you a good leader. If that were the case, then the Mau Mau would not have gone to fight for Independence because they were not properly educated. The problem with our universities is that they are no longer populated with faculty and learners in pursuit of intellectual rigor and discovery. They are mostly daytime career people, evening moonlighters and students whose goal is to get that piece of paper to impress upon parents and employers. This is the essence of an academic pandemic, people who are rote learners, people who think they went to school to learn for their parents. Those are not the kind of people who you start saying that they should be Members of Parliament or MCAs. Let natural attributes be clear. Let the people have the opportunity to choose. Just to caution, when you come to fill human resource establishments, mere qualifications do not relay to competence. They only signal that competence. It has been documented that"
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