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    "id": 1348905,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kisumu East, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Shakeel Shabbir",
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        "legal_name": "Ahmed Shakeel Shabbir Ahmed",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. That is one of the mysteries with these results. During our time, the Ministry of Education, the Minister and all the examiners were sober, responsible, and worked in a manner that exuded confidence. When our results were out, they were not transmitted through SMS, they were on sheets of paper in our schools. We would go there and read them. They were signed and stamped by the Minister. Over the 20 years that I have been a Member of Parliament and even before, I find that all the cabinet secretaries for Education want to become superstars. All of them want to be better than the predecessor. They take shortcuts in doing this. They dress in fancy suits, use fancy cars, and have fancy meetings. They spend millions of shillings to go to Mitihani House with all the paraphernalia to announce results that they do not know. In 1987, the Kenya National Examination Council was sensible. When I did my Certificate for Primary Education (CPE), no one questioned anyone. We accepted the results as they were. If one did not do well, then they would know. We had confidence and trust in KNEC. Right now, the Ministry of Education has become a lottery scene: unalipa unapata . They say that they will have results in two weeks. But what results? Garbage in, garbage out. I want the Cabinet Secretary to tell us what the problem is. We have had sensible men in this docket like Prof. Magoha, Dr Matiang’i and many others. In my constituency, some students are shell-shocked because they received results for exams they never did. In some instances, the entire school did not do some of the exams. We are county schools and we do not have such subjects yet they received the results. The position is that the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Education and Research needs to have this sorted out. The Cabinet Secretary should be the first one to resign. He is a sensible man and I know him. He needs to come here and apologise to the people. We are talking about SMS. We know that that is also a con, corruption by deceit. Who was involved all the time when we had the Telcom case and the others?"
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