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    "id": 1202596,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": " Thank you Mr. Speaker, Sir. I take this moment to welcome these young Kenyans undergoing one of the most important programmes that we run as Parliament. This is one of our living legacies as Members of the fourth Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC). This programme is one of the most competitive in the country for pupillage. If you speak to many young lawyers in the country, they will tell you despite Parliament not being considered as a prestigious posting in terms of a law firm, this programme has given opportunity to many young people to join the ranks of Parliament after gaining experience in it. The way it is administered is such that we pick the best of the applicants after an interview, from each of the 47 counties. We cannot pick all of them at ago. It takes us three years to go through our list of 47 counties. I do not know each of them individually, but if you ask each of them, you will hardly find any two coming from the same county. It tells you that the programme is administered by competent staff, who are well ranking in the legal profession and provide such a good opportunity and platform for young people to learn the workings of Parliament. This is so that in future, in the course of their career, much as it may not arise in many occasions, they may find demand for them to understand the operations of Parliament. Sometimes when you follow court proceedings, even senior lawyers and counsel struggle about very basic operations of Parliament. The experience they receive from Parliament cannot be gainsaid. I congratulate and wish them well. May they extremely work hard in the things they are doing. May they interact with Members as freely as they can and learn as much as they wish to in their six months’ stay in the institution."
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