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    "id": 1275432,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1275432/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ezekiel Machogu",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Education",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Ezekiel Machogu Ombaki",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. One, we have now paid all our examiners countrywide. There was a little bit of a delay, but we were able to get the Kshs2 billion and paid each and every examiner. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, there was a question on which the examiner will take a little more time to mark. For example, Kiswahili has insha and other explanations where questions are not open ended. It will require the examiner to take more time. For Kiswahili, we pay Kshs73 per script and Kshs53 per script for Christian Religious Education (CRE). Why do we do that? In CRE, you might find a question asking where Jesus Christ was born or how many disciples Jesus Christ had. However, the nature of questions in other subjects such as Kiswahili, are not the same. I had the same challenge last year in the 2022 examination weeks. As you know, teachers who were marking CRE Paper Two were insisting that we had to pay them an equivalent of what we are paying Kiswahili teachers, who were in Mang’u High School. Their argument was exactly that. Again, teachers are taken through some kind of training before they come to mark. They also sign a contract, which is clear on the amount that they will be paid for every subject. I agree that apart from one subject, we are working on a package for our examiners because they require better terms. We are also working to improve the environment in which they mark. It is because they are the major stakeholders when it comes to marking those exams. They"
}