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    "id": 1355262,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1355262/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kitutu Masaba, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Clive Gisairo",
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    "content": "On Monday, 6th November 2023, KNEC dispatched undercover supervisors to Nyambaria Boys High School and St. Paul's Gekano High School to invigilate examinations instead of the authorised invigilators. Subsequently, the centre managers of the two institutions were hastily suspended without adequate consideration of the merits of the claims. On Tuesday, 14th November 2023, students at Nyambaria Boys High School, who were exasperated by the harassment, protested after security teams and invigilators ordered them to strip half-naked for frisking, which is a dehumanising and retrogressive demand. It is against this background that I request for a statement from the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Education on the following: 1. Why are the candidates being subjected to harassment during examination time? 2. State the reasons why Nyambaria Boys High School and St Paul’s Gekano High School seem to be targeted as centres for possible examination malpractice in the ongoing examinations. 3. What supervisory measures have the Ministry of Education and the KNEC put in place to mitigate incidents of examination irregularities in the ongoing Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examinations and recorded cases of malpractice, if any? 4. State the extent of investigations of incidents in the affected schools and give assurance to safeguard innocent candidates from the risk of examination results cancellation without following due process. 5. What is the role of officers from the National Police Service (NPS) and the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) in examination centres and the extent to which they are allowed to enforce any measures against alleged examination malpractice to avoid harassment of candidates? Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker."
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