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    "id": 1348853,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1348853/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Manyatta, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Gitonga Mukunji",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Speaker, many Members of this House will agree with me that exam results are one of those moments that define your life. Members in this House witnessed students waiting for examination results. It was traumatic to see on social media young pupils saying that the results they got through Short Message Services (SMSs) were not what they expected. Dr Njengere confidently confirmed and assured citizens that the discrepancies that were experienced were due to configuration issues from the SMS service provider. That automatically raised a query in terms of what was reported and the real story of the results of this year’s KCPE examination. My biggest question is: Why was there a hurry to release the results without clearly ensuring that they were good and were as per the examination that was done? Each single SMS that a parent or a pupil sent cost Ksh25. If you do your math for the 1.4 million candidates who sat for the KCPE, that is a lot of money accruing to the providers of the SMS services. The results are questionable because a particular school weirdly reported that candidates scored 75 per cent in a particular subject for all the candidates who did the examination. That raises quite a number of questions on the results that were announced. Section 40(b) of the Kenya National Examination Council Act provides for the establishment of the National Examinations Appeals Tribunal to hear such complaints, but it has not been publicised enough that there is a tribunal to listen to the many complaints that Kenyans are raising all over the place. I would like to know whether there are any set measures by the Ministry and the KNEC on the knowledge of this tribunal that is supposed to listen to the many complaints that we are getting. I know everybody is aware that the complaints can change our children forever. It is traumatic when results are released and a pupil expects to perform well, but they get graded in subjects that they did not even sit for. You cannot pay for the trauma our young pupils are subjected to. I appeal to this House to follow this issue to the letter. I also appeal to KNEC to uphold credibility when announcing examination results of our children. We are about to know the results of the Kenya Primary School Education Assessment (KEPSEA) and the Kenya National Secondary Education (KCSE). The KNEC should announce the results of our children as they are and that is not negotiable. There is need for this House to even summon the Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Education, in order to get clear answers on the whole process of examination marking and announcement. We need to also investigate further the service provider who would mess up a clear way of announcing our results for the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education in this country. 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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