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    "id": 629277,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Njuki",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Onesmus Muthomi Njuki",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for this opportunity to comment on this Petition. Of course, I want to support the Petition even though I am not worried about the criterion that was used. My biggest worry is the cancer that we are creating in Kenya. It is not even the number of students whose exams were cancelled but the number of students who cheated in their exams and yet they have results. They must be more than 5,000. Therefore, it means that in future, we are going to have cheating doctors. We are also going to have cheating lawyers and Members of Parliament. You can cheat your way into university but when you get into university, you find that education is about application. However, even there, they may have perfected the art of cheating and we end up with cheating professionals. That is the biggest problem. In 2007, when there was election malpractice to the level that we had chaos in Kenya and the Electoral Commission of Kenya (ECK) was unable to prove who won the elections, the route we went is that we disbanded the ECK and came up with the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC). I think that is the route we should go with this body that oversees examinations today. It is of no use waiting for another disaster to happen next year while we are getting shy of saying let us disband the body and create a completely different body because who is responsible for the custody of examinations? From setting, moderating, printing to administering the exam, it is normally under the custody of the KNEC. Why do we want to blame other bodies, including security when the exam leaks? On the issue of corruption which has been mentioned very briefly, I do not want to believe students are corrupt because some parents bought papers either through WhatsApp or physical papers for their children. What motivated cheating was financial. When you have information or when you structure information that is supposed to be confidential and sell it for money that is corruption. That is why there is leaking of this examination. Therefore, very punitive measures must be taken to completely dissuade the people who want to continue cheating in future. With those few remarks, I support the Petition."
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