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    "id": 111262,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Ongeri",
    "speaker_title": "23 Wednesday, 24th March, 2010(P) The Minister for Education",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 124,
        "legal_name": "Samson Kegeo Ongeri",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, hon. I. Ruto asked under what statutes, rules or subsidiary legislation and I have clearly stated it was irregularly done. That also formed the basis upon which I withdrew and exactly ordered the KNEC to resort to other methods of disciplinary measures other than quoting the subsidiary legislation which is nonexistent. As regards hon. Ogari, yes, his school Magina with 80 students got involved in this unfortunate exercise, and they are very clear of the rules; that if your school is in breach of these results, then the best course of action is you are allowed 30 days for appeal and I believe the school has made adequate appeals. It is now before the KNEC and it will be premature for me to hazard any guess. There have been instances where schools have applied, the issue has been investigated and some remedy carried out. It will not be the end of the road. As far as hon. Koech is concerned; what concrete steps are we taking to ensure that cheating does not continue, it takes two or three to tango, and therefore, we have, in fact, taken very serious measures in this last examination. The people who were peddling rumours, people who were selling fake reports or examinations were netted and in fact one of the students who was from one of our local universities who was caught impersonating has been handed a sentence of 12 months. Mr. Speaker, Sir, therefore, I want the public to know that we will not condone in any way, cheating, whether it starts at the KNEC, the invigilators level or the student level. There are cases where communities collude with the students and teachers. Like there was a case in Mombasa where one merchant was peddling or trying to buy the papers on the morning of the examinations. He paid hefty sums of money but unfortunately, we caught up with him in time and he was not able to carry out this mischievous act. Unfortunately, we caught up with him in time and he was not able to carry out that mischievous act. Similarly, we have now put surveillance cameras in all our Kenya National Examination Security rooms and one is being monitored carefully as he or she goes in. We have put in place other security measures. For example, at the centre of the examination, if you open the paper before time, you will not be able to close it. It will collapse and, therefore, it will be seen that, that particular paper has been tampered with. Therefore, we will continue tightening those measures and processes until we eliminate what I think is a very dangerous game. That is because if you begin doubting the integrity of our certificates, then this nation will not be where it should be. Thank you."
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