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    "speaker_name": "Dr. Khalwale",
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    "content": "Minister or the President that they performed well. This is something that can be thought through by our professionals because they know these things. There is the concept of Rapid Results Initiative (RRI). These are innovative ways of thinking, through consultations with professionals and other stakeholders. The Minister will be able to arrive at an almost attractive model that will move Kenya to the next level in our training. All academicians over the world, you and I, included, know that nowhere in the world do we have a school for teaching experience. Experience can only be learned on the job. There is no professor who ever got an undergraduate degree called experience. You get experience yourself. So, when we are modeling a good school like this one, it means it is the nearest you can go to giving somebody experience before he gets the 30 years that he needed to perform like somebody who has been performing for 30 years. This is where my mind is going. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to conclude by commenting on Clause 15 about the Director-General. We have to be very careful and with all due respect to us, hon. Members of Parliament, once again, we have said we want the Director-General to have a minimum of Masters Degree. That is very good. But Members of Parliament, hon. colleagues, my brothers and sisters, why do we always put these necessary high standards when it comes to others? When it is Members of Parliament or Members of the Senate, we do not want to apply the same standards. This is something which the youth are promising us as we talk to them quietly out there that they will teach us a lesson. We have youth out there whose only reason why they cannot run against me is because they cannot mount a proper campaign, but they have better education than me. These youth might come through either a youth wave or some other wave. They will come here and they will start laughing on this Dispatch Box that how could these people be so selfish? I support that the Director-General should have that Masters Degree, but the reason is that we should also remember that of all the commissions we have appointed, we have also put a high standard. We should go and rethink. If we hon. Members can search ourselves, we would go and review the legislation on the Elections Bill that we passed here and make the necessary amendments and put there a saving clause. We do not want to look selfish, those of us who have degrees. We should put a saving clause that members who have already performed, that is a minimum requirement for you to continue serving, so that we phase out any further risk of people who are not up to it, coming to Parliament. I am not saying they only come to earn a salary, but so that they also participate in the development of this country. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, finally, I have talked to a few friends of mine who are in the teaching profession at least in my line of training and they have proposed a few amendments. I will hand them over to the Minister, so that he looks at them. I will put there the addresses of my friends if he needs to consult them, he can do so. When we go to the Third Reading, I do not have to come here with a raft of amendments. If we can fix it at this time before we go to the Third Reading, so much the better because it will be easier. With those many remarks, I thank you and I wish to support."
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