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    "id": 262944,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/262944/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mwathi",
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        "legal_name": "Peter Mungai Mwathi",
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    "content": "I have been looking at the requirements, including in the institution of Parliament where I am a Commissioner, and I can see the kind of qualifications required even for small jobs. The minimum qualification is a university degree. How will these students who do not have access to university education even get these small jobs? So, it is important for us, as a nation, to know this nation will not end with our lives, but we have to leave something for posterity. That is the fruits of what we shall have planted for our children and our children’s children, and that is education. Our population as at the time we were given Independence has grown to more than five or six times up to now. However, what have we done in our education system, especially at the university level? It is still wanting. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to support and second this Motion, and request that each one of us of goodwill to imagine that we need all our children – whether within this country or going out to search for jobs – to have the relevant qualifications. And that, further and most importantly, that in support of this Motion, we are supporting the millions of Kenyans who do not have money to pay for parallel programmes; and that most of them who are living from hand to mouth will, therefore, be able to access university education."
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