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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Bahari",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Abdul Bahari Ali Jillo",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, it is good that the CIC has involved itself in the issue of administrative procedures for the police recruitment. That is fine. I think they have come up with a very elaborate procedure, but I have a bone to pick up with that because some of the qualifications that have been set are very high. This is particularly when you require a police officer to have a mean grade of “C”. I am not saying that that mean grade is not there, but in some of our areas, those are the people who will join universities and middle level colleges. Those people will join teacher training colleges and medical training colleges. Has a consideration been made to allow those with a mean grade of “D+” or “C-“ to take up these appointments? I have not seen that. I have seen fellows from the remote or marginalized areas with a mean grade of “D+” who attain a First Class Honors at the universities when they get an opportunity to go there. Therefore, they should not be excluded from the word go. You know the civil service procedure, and I hope the Commission is not falling into some of these tricks. The advertisement was designed in such a manner that, from the outset, they exclude us. In this instance, I am afraid whether the Commission participated, like they have reported here, in coming up with those procedures. There is need to revise that requirement. The Deputy Leader of Government Business is here and I hope he has taken note of this. That requirement will marginalize the arid and semi-arid areas, which are already marginalized. Therefore, it works against the spirit and the letter of the Constitution. These issues must be taken into account."
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