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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for this opportunity. One of the most traumatising things to our children is for them to study for many years and expect proper results of their efforts, but that does not happen. We have seen consistency within the Ministry of Education in terms of how, for many years, they have been handling the results: starting from the process of dispatch, collecting, and returning of the examinations. Candidates sit for examination and expect proper marking and distribution of correct results. It is very shocking to see the results skewed in terms of regions and schools. It is common sense to many of us to see very high scores recorded in some regions and schools. Other schools are awarded what can be described as the ‘most appropriate performance’. It shows a rushed process by the Ministry of Education. It does not matter the report that is going to come from the Cabinet Secretary because up to this point, we cannot say that this is the actual performance of our children. Indeed, it has had an effect and impact on parents and their children. The process, right from the beginning, was wrong. There is no guideline that says the Ministry must give the exam results within a certain time of the year. I am wondering why the Kenya National Examinations Council and the Ministry of Education rushed the marking of exams in a short time. The results were reported in a hurry without checking the system. It is common sense that it is a case of garbage in, garbage out. That is what we are seeing here. All of us know that if you have a plan, you prepare for it, evaluate it, and then execute. I do not want to believe that the problem was because of a computer error. Somebody somewhere failed in their responsibility. What we saw was the Ministry of Education hurrying up to announce the results. We come from a background of former ministers, Dr Matiangi and Professor Magoha, who came up with their own systems. We now have the Cabinet Secretary for Education, Hon. Ezekiel Machogu, who has his own system. Although the systems are different, they are geared to do the same thing. It is high time the KNEC is held accountable for what is happening with the management of exams in this country. The concerned people in the KNEC have continued to be there despite the mess they have caused. Nobody has ever come up to take action against them. It is a shortfall of the 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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