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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, that is correct. Since he is the promoter of the Bill and the Mover, I give him what we commonly call “the right to say no”. If he exercises that right to say no, then I will bring the amendment. But since he has gladly embraced my sound arguments on the matter, he waves the right to say no. With those result slips, then schools can help children who have finished examinations go to the job market. The upshot of this is that, the Bill must also specify very clearly that no head teacher should hold on to a result slip of any student once the results are out and the result slips are forwarded to the schools, so that students can be able to go with them to the job market as they await their certificates. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, when you go to the schools to get the results of your child, the teacher tells you he can show you the results but he cannot give you the result slip because some school fees is outstanding. We are saying even that result slip is not the property of the school. The school is a conveyer belt from the Kenya National Examinations Council to the student who sat for the examinations. This is the only way we can help students and the Government of the day – even after 2017 when it will be a Coalition for Reforms and Democracy (CORD) Government – we must be obligated by the law that any requirement of outstanding fees payable by any student is a civil debt to the school. If it is a private school, they reserve the right to sue the parent of the child and recover their money. But they have absolutely no right to incapacitate a child who has painstakingly gone through school for four years, and then finds him/herself without any document to show that he went to school. Because if you finish Form Four and you have no result slip, you have no certificate. What are you? You are only a Standard Eight leaver if you ever got the Standard Eight certificate. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we live in a country where the certificate of education is the Alpha and Omega in life. When you are looking for a job – that is why The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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