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    "id": 1335721,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1335721/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Moyale, UPIA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Prof.) Guyo Jaldesa",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I want to raise a small issue and congratulate the Committee Chairperson for correctly reading hard names from northern Kenya. This means he did a lot of work. Looking at examinations, there is a lot of inequality and unfairness to students from hard-to-reach areas. You can imagine students who are transported 80 kilometres away from their homes to other examination centres and yet, there is no boarding facility for them. This is because of lack of logistics. The Ministry cannot afford to take the examination to where they have been schooling with less than 50 per cent of teachers’ coverage. Only three teachers are teaching from Grade 1 to Class VIII. So, they are already disadvantaged. Now, they have been displaced from their homes to other examination centres. We need to see how best to handle that problem next time. The other issue is the validation of the examination results and marked scripts. There should be a way of validating so that we can know the marks given to a child in Alliance High School are the same as a child from Moyale. I suspect biasness by teachers marking the papers. We need a water-tight validation system so that students are assessed on equal footing. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. With those few remarks, I support. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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