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    "id": 905623,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 440,
        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, if you could add me three minutes only because this is a very important issue which should go on record. Our complaint was that the legal training was going to be compromised because of mass training that does not regulate the number of people who join the legal profession. We did the demonstrations and my class survived; we did not have to do what they had forced at that point in time. Ultimately we have so many lawyers across the country. In fact, the complaint of the senior lawyers at the moment is that the imbalance at the Law Society of Kenya (LSK) is caused by the behaviour of the young lawyers vis- à-viz that of the older lawyers. It is a problem we are grappling with as we move on. Mr. Speaker, Sir, there is mass failure at the School of Law. Those students are depressed because somebody who trained at the University of Nairobi; Mombasa or Kisumu campus or Moi University, Eldoret comes and is forced to go to school in Karen where transport is complicated and getting housing is difficult. Most of those students come to Nairobi for the first time and are expected to pay over Kshs200,000 to go to the School of Law. The Chairperson of this Committee, Sen. Cherargei who is my former student is also a victim of the same process because he is still at the Kenya School of Law. As you know, we have many students of law here. We have Sen. Linturi who just finished his degree at the University of Nairobi and is currently studying at the Kenya School of Law. We have Sen. Kinyua who is now a third year student at the University of Nairobi. So we have people here who have direct interest in this subject matter. I am suggesting that the Committee does not just come back with a general answer to the Petition. They should come back with a draft amendment to the Council for Legal Education Act so that we can liberalise Pre-bar exam training. This will ensure that if you finish your degree at the University of Nairobi, the university can prepare you for the bar exam. You just finish there and register to go and do the bar exam. If you pass, that is it. There is no need to force students to repeat courses such as conveyancing, criminal procedure and so forth at the Kenya School of Law; units that they would have done at the university."
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