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    "id": 1161439,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Mwaura",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Isaac Maigua Mwaura",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, currently our security apparatus may have failed to locate these students as of now. This is my county in a way, because I am married from Embu. I do not know what is happening to this Embu issue, but I do not think this is a question of reportage. It could be these cases are rampart everywhere else. We need to put in place measures to ensure that we protect our candidates when they are supposed to do exams. This speaks further to the issue of the fact that our exams are hyped a lot and people feel like if they do not do them they will go against the grain and doing a disservice to their community, especially their families. We need to ensure that we assure our students that even if they do not do well, that is just a grading system. Those who are not as good as others can end up in polytechnics and will become useful members of the society. In any case, some of the most successful people in the society are not necessarily those who speak fluent English, or that pass all their exams. That is one facet of life. I would want to send the message to the country from the floor of this House that we need to have a system that is very conducive. I do not know whether this would change with the advent of the Competency Based Curriculum (CBC) because it is competency and outcome based. It will help people to understand that examinations are not just when you are sitting down to write a paper. Madam Temporary Speaker, this matter should be taken with the seriousness it deserves and the relevant Committee needs to give us an answer so that it does not become a tradition. I do not know whether this matter will be interrogated by the Committee on Education, or the one on National Security, Defence and Foreign Relations, or maybe a combination of both. These candidates, wherever they are, may appear after the exams are over and they might be in bad shape. Several times in Nigeria, high school girls disappeared because of Boko Haram. By the time they were discovered, most of them were even pregnant. We fear, not only because of their physical security, but also in terms of their mental and other forms of statuses. I support."
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