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"speaker_name": "Mr. Kabando wa Kabando",
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"content": " Yes, Madam Temporary Deputy Chairlady. I rise to support the further amendment by hon. Ethuro. As much as we want to emphasize on experience, we have also to deal with the reality in this country; that sometimes experience may not always be positive. We need to look outside the box, that there are a lot of young and vibrant intellectuals as has been very well exhibited by my year-mate hon. Abdikadir Mohammed and, junior in college, hon. Namwamba. I am just making a quick arithmetic here. To finish university with a first degree, you are above 23 or 24 years old. By the time you finish your Masters you are 26 years old. If you go for extensive research for PhD, you will be around 32 to 34 years old. If you add five years you will be 38 or 39 years old. So, if you look at the average of even the hon. Members that I mentioned here, they are around 40, 41 or 42 years old. In fact, one of them is below 40. It is important for us to look out of the box to harvest those who are able to input. If you look at the American universities, or European universities, you will find that many lecturers and heads of departments of technical courses, science and law are very young and vibrant people whose experience of five years far much surpasses the experience of ten years which sometimes may be too conventional and yet a new dispensation is calling for dynamics and unconventional ways. I strongly support hon. Ethuroâs further amendment."
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