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    "id": 1348892,
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    "speaker_name": "Bungoma County, FORD-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Catherine Wambilianga",
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    "content": " Thank you for this opportunity to voice this issue. From the onset, I thank Hon. Mukunji for this adjournment Motion. It is timely. It is true the country is wondering. Parents are perturbed. The children are more disturbed. Why are their results manipulated after an exam? I feel there is a problem right from the registration. It means you are registered under the wrong name if you can get the wrong results. That means something happened during the registration. As the Kenya National Examinations Council goes on with registration and teachers prepare students to have the exams, something must be done from the onset. The lapse in marking of exams is not the fault of teachers. Teachers have taken their time, eight years, preparing the children. At the time of marking, you find that the same teachers are placed under very horrible conditions. They are hurried to mark the exams. They are poorly remunerated and given timelines to stop marking so that they can hand over marks. This lapse must be checked. The teachers ought to be given time. Even if I am a teacher marking a composition... You need to get time to read and know what you are giving the student. However, because of such circumstances, this will cause systems to fail and the marks accorded to students may not be correct. The Kenya Certificate of Primary Education is a very important exam for our children. This is a time when they are transitioning to the secondary section. If their marks are manipulated and they are given the wrong marks, this automatically kills their morale. The KNEC must be answerable. Why accord wrong marks if systems are in place? We have just learnt here that the tribunal has no chairperson. This tribunal is supposed to check on the exams, how they are transported to schools and all that. This has never happened. As a House, let us call upon an entire audit of the KNEC. Something must be done if, indeed, we have outdated officers who still have those archaic methods of thinking. I sit in the Departmental Committee on Labour and we have been discussing extension of time at work after a worker has retired. Can they be given an extension of time? With that extension, it is as if we have no other people to take up the opportunities. If this is going to be put in place, let us have a fresh board that is going to look at these exams and have the correct results for our children. I strongly second you, Hon. Mukunji."
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