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    "speaker_name": "Tinderet, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Julius Melly",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Speaker, as rightly conversed by the Member for Alego Usonga, I have no answers. I commend Members for what they have said. It shall be transmitted to the Cabinet Secretary. However, there are certain issues that I want to put on record, especially on the issue of assigning containers. I read my Statement quite well that certain sub-counties shall be served outside their sub-counties. A case in point is what the Member for Teso South has alluded to. Secondly, there is the issue of teachers. I want to be on record that the Departmental Committee on Education and I, being a former teacher, have been very fair to the teachers of North Eastern. When you were the Chairlady of the Departmental Committee on Education in 2018, we introduced continuous recruitment of teachers in Garissa, Mandera, Wajir and Lamu regions. No other part of the country has been given preferential treatment like that particular region. It is unfair for the Member for Wajir to allude that the Hon. Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Education is unfair to that region. Thirdly, there are issues that are faced by 129 teachers. Northern Region has about 6,000 teachers or more. However, 129 of them had certain incidental and sporadic cases of insecurity which needed to be listened to and addressed. They should not be handled globally like the whole region. Not the whole of Wajir and Mandera is insecure, but it is certain areas where those teachers were crying that they had issues. I want to thank the Committee. They listened to them. However, we did not make a resolution that all teachers from the North region need to move out. I just wanted to put that very clearly. Regarding early exposure, it was in the wisdom of the Committee that the exams were to be picked twice. This is because the second paper was the one that was leaked. That is why at the examination centre or the school, when exams reach there, unethical and immoral people could open papers early and expose them. That is why we say you pick the exam in the morning and do it. The longest exam in Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) is two-and- a-half hours. So, it will be over by around 10.30. Go back and pick the next one so that it is done in the afternoon without any early exposure. That is why, as Hon. Toroitich has said, there is nothing as sanctifying as a certificate. If, as a country, we are not going to make sure that our certificates are honoured and have integrity, we shall not stand in the community of nations as people who have studied. Hon. Temporary Speaker, the issue of validation and movement has been said by the Member of Wajir. On the issue of marking, we said examiners need to be paid well. I agree with the Members. That is why we proposed this budget. I also urge the House that when the supplementary budget comes here, we vote for Ksh3.8 billion to the KNEC to pay for examiners and all those other things. On the issue of validation and movement of learners, moving a boy or a girl from his or her home to a far place is unfair. I know it is happening because of distances. However, I want Members to know that it is not in the interest of the Examination Council and even this Committee that students are moved for two or three days to finish exams and return home. This is something that we can address, and I thank you. Lastly, I want to tell the House that the Cabinet Secretary will be here tomorrow at 9.00 a.m. to address the issue of capitation in schools, among many others. I ask that Members be in the Chamber early tomorrow so that you can prod the Cabinet Secretary to answer a number of things one-on-one. Thank you very much."
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