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    "id": 849736,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/849736/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Homa Bay Town, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Peter Kaluma",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 1565,
        "legal_name": "George Peter Opondo Kaluma",
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    "content": "Allow me to say that the Law Society of Kenya is just one of the organisations we have established under the statute. Unlike others, the Law Society of Kenya has some public obligations like to protect the administration of justice and others. In as much as there is huge clamour nationally that we should open up qualifications to anybody who wants anything, the Law Society of Kenya needs to begin thinking whether they would be wise to have the president of the Law Society of Kenya, who, for instance, has practised law for one year or less. There is good reason as to why we determined that for one to be president of the Law Society of Kenya, one needs qualifications similar to those of the Chief Justice of Kenya. As the president of the Law Society of Kenya, you are interacting on behalf of that profession with everybody, including the Chief Justice and the entire legal sector. I do not think we can just take politics into some of these positions. I do not pre-empt, I am making it clear that there was a good reason why the age was set. As a Members of Parliament, I insist that age limit must be there so that we do not have a lawyer in office who does wrong things or has no competency to do the right thing."
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