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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, finally but not least, is on the issue of MCAs. If we expect high standards of the people we are vetting, we should also subject ourselves to an opportunity to offer high standards for us to go into offices to vet people and decide whether they are sufficiently qualified or not. Let me give you an example of a case of one of my hospital matrons who was vetted in Kisumu County. I think she had applied for a job as a Chief Nursing Officer. The MCA who vetted her was some character from her village. She wrote an article in one of the news papers wondering how a village boy, who had no qualification could decide whether or not she was qualified. This is the time for the Senate to be brave and lead the country in introducing amendment legislation on the Elections Act, where we must demand that our MCAs, the Members of the National Assembly and Senators in the next election, should be people who are properly educated. If an old man like the distinguished Senator for Laikipia County, in spite of his age, is a scholar, has even written books which I read, although I do not always agree with everything that he has written, what is the so difficult for a youth to go back to school so as to meet the minimum requirements to go to the county assembly, the National Assembly or the Senate? I will be very happy when the minimum qualification for somebody to become a Member of the National Assembly or the Senate will be somebody with a minimum of degree education and form four and post secondary school education for the MCAs. I beg to support, with those suggested amendments in the Committee of the Whole stage."
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