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    "id": 289524,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Njuguna",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Peter Njuguna Gitau",
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    "content": "Most obliged, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I correct it by saying that there are some lawyers in this country who have not been performing well while executing their mandate in our courts of law. I think with the establishment of the new school, the training will be able to produce and deliver to the country qualified lawyers. The new school will be expected to have a Board of Directors. In my view, the membership of the Board of Directors misses membership from the private sector and Central Organization of Trade Unions (COTU). I think these are bodies that should be represented in the composition of the Board. Concerning the Chief Executive Officer of the Board, it is clearly indicated that this will be a competitively selected Chief Executive Officer. Being a school just like the University of Nairobi or any other institution, it is important that we have an assistant or somebody to deputize the Chief Executive Officer in case of something. That one is also missing. In my view, with the Chief Executive Officer and the Deputy Chief Executive Officer, it will be imperative that we consider gender balance in the membership of the Board. The new school will be expected to solicit or get funds or grants from donors. This Board will be expected to utilize those resources for the benefit of our country. The admission to this school will be expected to be expansive to allow more admissions with the rising population of our people in this country. Therefore, admissions should also be open and wide so that all areas of this country will be given opportunity. There should be students in this school even from the marginalized area. With this establishment, the Government, therefore, will be expected to pump in more resources because this will be the main School of Law in this country, the way we started the Royal College in this country. The school will be expected to have more resources and as the institution grows, it will be expected to devolve campuses to all the counties in the country so that the citizenry can be served in their own counties. The lawyers who will come out of this institution will be different from those lawyers that we have seen in practise in this country. We have seen even the Law Society of Kenya (LSK) disciplining some members because at times they are found to have been misappropriating clients’ money. So, this institution will be expected to produce the most qualified lawyers to meet the demands of a new Kenya – a Kenya that has been yearning for better services from this school."
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