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    "id": 847967,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 376,
        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
        "slug": "millie-odhiambo-mabona"
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I think Hon. Mwaniki and Hon. T.J Kajwang’ are consulting on these issues because they are lawyers. I also suspect they are thinking that this will proceed to tomorrow or any other day. I am sure they will give their contributions then. That is such a weighty issue that you cannot purport to liberalise the training of lawyers. I went to the New York University after my degree in law at the University of Nairobi (UoN). Even after getting my Masters form New York University, I would not be allowed to practise in the US until I went through another rigorous set of exams by one certifying body, not by every Tom, Dick and Harry in the USA. I do not know what it is with Kenya that wants to over- liberalise university training and education, especially professional certification. I am seeing other professionals bringing Bills where they are getting one body to certify. We, lawyers, are being told to liberalise and get people training us in River Road. I will vehemently oppose this because, as you know, it is not easy to get a law degree. It is not just something. I know we have become very corrupt as Kenya, unfortunately. But, we will not extend that corruption even into matters of education. Sometimes when I pass and see the way we have put up private universities - I will not mention which one. The other day just around Nairobi, not Nairobi, as I was going for the graduation of my security assistant who did his degree recently, I passed somewhere towards Thika and I saw a place with a whole university that does not even qualify to be a high school. We need to be serious. As much as I know we need to increase our education, we should not be at the level that The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
}