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    "id": 670099,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/670099/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Lati",
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        "legal_name": "Jonathan Lelelit Lati",
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    "content": "Hon. Lentoimaga said, if the only qualification to get to this House is having an ID card, we are being too selfish. I understand the issues of constitutionalism that people have mentioned. Truly, according to the Bill of Rights, we cannot discriminate on the basis of gender or education. However, during elections, we ask the President to provide a degree. We also ask the governor and his deputy to produce degrees, but when we get to the people who make laws like us, we become so selfish and decide that we should have no qualifications. The Constitution applies to every human being who lives in Kenya including governors and the President. What wisdom is there to require the President and governors to have degrees, but not all of us? If the Bill of Rights states that you cannot be discriminated against on the basis of education, it also states that you cannot be discriminated on the basis of gender. However, in the same Constitution, 16 women must be nominated to the Senate. Is that not discrimination? There are things we must carry within the Constitution that sound unconstitutional, but since they have been applied elsewhere, we just have to agree. The Constitution is as good as the people. If you do not represent the people, then the Constitution has no meaning. Members who sit in our assemblies and oversee millions of Kenyan taxpayers’ money that we send to the counties must have some qualifications to understand the reports that are taken to their assemblies from the Executive in their areas. That sounds more constitutional than having no qualification and asking at the end of the year who is this fellow called quorum. On party nominations, the world over, nominations are specifically supposed to represent the wish of the people."
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