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    "id": 1335680,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tinderet, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Julius Melly",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I am well guided. I will summarise, but Members need to understand this. I will skim through some of the issues without going into details. I will pinpoint some of the pertinent areas in which Members raised a lot of concerns. The issue of identification and distribution of centres and containers and the mapping of examination centres was raised by several Members. I emphasise that the Ministry of Education (MOE) and the Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC) have been working on strategies to eliminate early exposure to the second session of examination papers. One of the key strategies that will be implemented this year is the collection of examination papers twice a day for KCSE exams. This will ensure that no candidate has access to examinations before the set time. My Departmental Committee on Education and Research tabled the examination inquiry Report here. One of the things we found out as a Committee is that most exam cheating and malpractices take place on the second paper which goes to the schools early and is exposed early. This is the real issue. The Ministry is trying to treat this malpractice. On the same note, to allay the fears raised by the Members, the Ministry said that stakeholders’ engagement forums on mapping of examination centres were convened. I will not go into details. The KNEC increased the number of containers from 482 to 576. We have 290 constituencies, but the number of containers was increased so that schools have easy access to the picking points. Before 2016, police stations used to be examination collecting centres, but it was realised that exams were leaked from those police stations and there was a lot of malpractice. During the Matiang’i reforms, it was decided that all exams should be stored in containers where only the sub-county Director of Education, the Deputy County Commissioner or Assistant County Commissioner, have the keys. No one can access the containers because of the double-locking system."
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