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    "id": 670087,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kipyegon",
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        "legal_name": "Johana Ngeno Kipyegon",
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    "content": "who have gone back to school after joining Parliament and have graduated. Others have added degrees. Sometimes I wonder what somebody means by saying this is discriminatory. The Constitution says that you should not discriminate against anybody on anything. When we quote educational qualifications, it then means we are discriminating against millions of Kenyans against running for gubernatorial positions, deputy governors, President and Deputy President in this country. We are not discriminating against others, but setting standards. Also, there was a very big debate about remuneration and the salaries of Members who fall within a certain group being based on academic qualifications. We then need to agree in this House to have different remunerations, so that those who do not have degrees have their salaries different from those who have degrees. Remuneration demands that you must fall within a certain category if you are to earn this amount of money. As a matter of fact, we need to make the real sense of education in this country to matter. Every day, we talk about education being very important. We are teaching our children about the importance of education. Why is it that when it comes to the most lucrative and important part, we do not do the same? This House legislates and makes laws that are used by everybody whether educated or uneducated. You cannot imagine if we were to allow it to happen just like that. On matters of education, I support that we, at least, raise the bar. We do not have referendum laws and that is why I support this Bill. It brings in all those issues. I agree with the inspection of registers because in most cases, we find hardships in the names that appear in the register. There is the question of party nominations. I agree with the setting in this Bill majorly because the Bill will allow party hopping which is primitive, but it is the only solution to the reckless parties in this country. We claim to be democratic and we want democracy in the major elections, but we are forgetting that real democracy starts with you and me during nominations. We do not care how people are nominated. During nominations, people buy certificates. They are issued to brothers, sisters, girlfriends and boyfriends. I am a victim of shrewd and reckless party nominations I would not have been anybody now were it not for party hopping. I am a Member of Parliament today because of this meandering around. I support this part where we allow party hopping until we create laws that will not allow anybody to mess with nominations. The nomination list is very important. The Presidential Petition is important which we allowed for up to 30 days. There was a big debate and we said we need to allow the members of the public and petitioners enough time to petition and file all the documents. With those few remarks, I support."
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