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    "id": 729526,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kaluma",
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        "legal_name": "George Peter Opondo Kaluma",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. The regulations the Chairman of the Committee on Delegated Legislation has drawn the attention of the Members to are very important. We are not only dealing with the processes of elections, but also qualifications. I want to draw the attention of Members to ensure the regulations capture a matter that is very pertinent and live currently. The matter of degree qualifications for people seeking gubernatorial, President and Deputy President positions. The Constitution requires one to have a degree from a university recognised in Kenya to run for those positions. However, the Constitution does not go further to tell you the content and status of this degree. The Constitution does not go ahead to demand requirements like what you need to have to get a degree. We are in a situation where if we are not careful--- Even in this House, many of our colleagues are running for gubernatorial positions. I am addressing the Chairman of the Committee on Delegated Legislation. If the Constitution says that one has to have a degree, what is this degree? You remember we raised this important issue when we were appointing the current Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) commissioners where people told us they have Master’s degrees, but they do not have an undergraduate degree or they have a degree, but they did not pass down there. I wanted the Chairman, even as we prepare to read through the regulations, to ensure that it is clear, so that a person does not come telling us he has a degree and then there is contestation in court. We do not want to leave it to courts to define a degree. We want to define it in regulations and I hope it will be clearly captured so that either way, we know how to proceed. Something has been said here which is very worrying, that beyond the regulations, we must agree, as a nation, that if we have a situation where the person who is in charge of all our money as a nation has no penny, as the Hon. Leader of the Majority Leader is saying, then there is cause for alarm. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, in as much as you want to constrain leaders from debating this thing, you should allow Members to question whether the Governor of the CBK has money or not. If you are the custodian of the monetary granary of Kenya and you do not have a coin of your own, I would like substantiation or further interrogation of that matter. The issue of degrees, we said yesterday---"
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