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    "id": 828131,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/828131/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I support the amendment. I support because of the critical role they play. We need persons with relevant expertise. If we go back to the same issue about degrees, there are certain professions we seem to treat as underhand professions and give them very low levels. That is why we talk about diploma for counsellors, psychologists, nutritionists and dieticians. We must have a paradigm shift. We have even made a provision for degrees in this Parliament and we have given Members a period within which to attain it. There are people who even want to be governors. I know Members right now who have registered to do degrees. Otherwise, they will not be governors. So, why are we providing lower standards? As a nation, we are forging forward. We are not in the 1960s when our parents used to say: “In our days, people were appointed with certain levels of qualifications”. This is the way to go. Let us encourage every Kenyan to pick up the spirit of working hard and not the quick fixes that is being entrenched in the country."
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