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    "id": 1518829,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1518829/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Miraj",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, on behalf of Sen. Mumma, I rise, pursuant to Standing Order No.53(1) to seek a Statement from the Standing Committee on Education concerning the outdated resources, sapping processes that applicants must endure whenever they seek to replace lost or destroyed academic certificates at the Kenyan National Examination Council's (KNEC) offices. In the Statement, the Committee should specifically- (1) Explain the justification for the laborious and overly bureaucratic procedural hurdles employed by the KNEC in their procedures for the replacement and authentication of academic certificates, including the requirement that applicants obtain confirmation letters from their former and hopefully still existent academic institutions to ascertain they sat their national examinations and they did so in that institution yet, the KNEC is the- (a) Sole custodian of all national examination-related data and principal archiver of those candidates' records, and; (b) Issuer of all unique candidates' identification numbers for persons sitting their national examinations and, similarly, the sole issuer of all accredited documentation on every candidate's results, including the academic certificates; (2) Explain why the KNEC is not leveraging technology to operate an independent digitised mechanism that in real time verifies students' examinations-related data, thus; (a) ensuring all candidates' records, including registration details and results, are digitised and stored on secure cloud-based platforms for real-time ease of access whenever KNEC needs to verify any applicant's credentials; (b) Developing and introducing a centralised database that is accessible to---"
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