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    "id": 902031,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/902031/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Seme, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) James Nyikal",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 434,
        "legal_name": "James Nyikal",
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    "content": "If you look at the Public Finance Management (PFM) Act, there was a resolution for the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC) to have more than one accounting officer. As much as that may be good, that is a major change. Further, I find it unacceptable that we want to use the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill to legalise the resolution of a commission, which resolution, at the time, was illegal or not in law. That is not acceptable in my mind. On the Kenya School of Law, I agree totally that it has actually become a bottleneck. There are very many students graduating, but cannot be advocates. We are, first of all, opening it up. So, very many institutions, including private institutions are going to offer training for advocates. That is a major change in law. It is also proposed that the admission requirements into the Kenya School of Law and the other schools of law that will be created are going to be changed. That is a major change in the provision of law. It is the same in the Legal Education Act. This is an amendment we have to look at very seriously. Students study law to get the LLB degree then need to get a diploma at the Kenya School of Law. We are restricting that by opening up so that we have many institutions providing this diploma. The first question we should ask is, what is the difference between the content that is offered in universities offering LLB degree course and the content that is offered at the Kenya School of Law? I know at the beginning it was six months. It was then extended to two years. It has become very expensive. It is now more expensive to go to Kenya School of Law and get a diploma than to get a degree. I agree that is good, but this is the time we should look at those issues and even look at the content instead of just saying we are going to open up. Now we are going to have many institutions providing the training for advocates. We are going to change admission into this institution. That, in my mind, would have required a substantive law, which I will support. However, I do not like that it is being done through a Statue Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill"
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