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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Simiyu",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I had left Parliament, but when I heard this debate on the radio, I quickly came back because it has been close to my heart. Hon. Naomi Shaban has mentioned a lot of things that I would have mentioned. One of them is the issue of education. If we go the direction this Bill suggests, we will be breaching the Constitution. It will be discriminatory because you cannot tell people that they cannot run for parliamentary seats because they do not have degrees. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, if you allow me, let me be a bit rude. A degree is not a vaccination against idiocy and stupidity. Many people who have degrees exhibit a very high level of stupidity and incomprehension of day to day life. Insisting that when you have a degree you qualify to be a leader is not right. It is not a question of gender and it is not right. We know very well that some very rich people in this world quit college. They did not finish their degrees and proceeded to be some of the richest people in the world. It is not a degree that makes somebody a leader. It is whether that person has the The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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