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    "id": 1473848,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1473848/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sigowet/Soin, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Justice Kemei",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity. I wish to support the request for statement by Hon. Kamket to lower the academic qualifications for chiefs and their assistants. We have a pool of human resource in this country known as village managers. The majority of them are not Form IV graduates. The majority of them probably went through primary school while quite a number of them did not even go to school. However, as a form of social control, they handle very intricate cases that academic qualification may not even be able to handle. Therefore, we must give those people the opportunity to rise to positions like those of assistant chief and the chief. Additionally, there is a panel which normally interviews those chiefs and their assistants. We want to ask the ministry responsible that, in those panels, let us not look at academic qualifications alone. Let us look at the administrative skills that people may posses such that even during interviews, you can be able to tell that this person is strong in terms of providing the kind of administration required at the rural areas. I want to join Hon. (Dr) Pukose and say that let us not make it discriminatory. Let us make it apply to all parts of this country because we are looking for skills to administer our nation and those skills may be with people who did not go to Form IV but they do possess them. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I support. Thank you."
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