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    "id": 902071,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/902071/?format=api",
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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": "issue is just about doing exams, then remove the diploma so that we just do degree and start practising. The practice of law is not about doing exams. All of us do exams from all parts of the country and of the world. There are people who do degrees in Kenya, India, and England. I have studied law both in Kenya and in the United States of America (USA) and they are very different frameworks. If I had not done my LLB in Nairobi, it meant that I may require doing more units because the USA system of law is very different from the Kenyan system of law. So you need one school that standardises that practice. But that is not what KSL is all about. There is a culture in the profession, some of which we have borrowed in this House including the culture of ranking. We are trained at the Kenya School of Law about etiquette. You see lawyers dress in a given way. If you open it so that we can even do it on River Road, River Road will come with its own standards of dressing. Right now I can come to Parliament dressed this way, but I cannot appear dressed like this in a court of law. So we cannot allow the legal profession…and it is not just about the dressing but about standardising the legal profession. Before I came here, I was an employer and I employed mainly lawyers. I was very concerned about the later day lawyers. It is because we have left it open. You find somebody telling you they have done law and yet what they tell you is something akin to law, but not law. So, we cannot just leave it open because some people had money and gave their children, who had failed, a chance to go and study law. Not everybody must be a lawyer. We also need excellent shoemakers. Let us not condition children to feel that everybody must be a lawyer or a medical doctor. There are people who must also make shoes. We need to train our children to know that when you are a shoemaker you can be excellent but not try and force everybody to be lawyer even when they do not want to."
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