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    "id": 453435,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/453435/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 24,
        "legal_name": "Nicholas Gumbo",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the real relevance is that we are discussing this Bill which Kenyans and I find difficulty relating with yet at the moment the problem that our country is obsessed with is about reducing the wage bill. So if it was up to me, I would ask our President to go to Montevideo and have a chat with President Jose Alberto Mujica to see the drastic changes that we need to bring in this country to bring the wage bill down, starting maybe with reducing the presidential motorcade, the number of bodyguards, even for ourselves. This is because the way the voter thinks now is a little different. It is not the voter of yesterday. We may be thinking here that we are doing very well but the voter may be seeing it differently because at the end of the day, if we legislate and it is not in tandem with what the voter thinks, or the voter wants, we may, in fact, be legislating in vain. So, the way it has been framed, I think we have not looked at the structural weaknesses of the Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) where we are saying: How do you grade a school which has enrolled 500 students and give it the same grading with a school which has enrolled 50 students? That is unfair! We should look at the structural weaknesses that exist in our institutions at the moment and try to improve them before coming up with bodies that will do no more than to increase the wage bill, or bodies that will do no more than duplication of work which other institutions, if properly empowered can do sufficiently. With those remarks, I beg to oppose."
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