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    "id": 1553761,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr Julius Migos Ogamba",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Education",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Speaker, that Question is in here and I can say the following: The Directive we gave to the principals is based on Article 53 of the Constitution and Section 10(2) of the Kenya National Examinations Council Act, 2012. It simply says that no one, or institution, is allowed to withhold any certificate belonging to a student. So, we gave that Directive and issued a circular to follow it. A number of principals have complied, while others have not. We gave them 14 days, which are expiring next week. After that, our county and sub-county directors of education will collect the data and undertake two actions: First, we will take disciplinary action against principals who have not complied through the Teachers Service Commission (TSC). Second and more serious, we will undertake a legal process against those teachers. The reason is that all the certificates they are holding bear the names of the students and not the parents. No school has an agreement or contractual obligation with a student to pay fees, but with the parents. Therefore, they are holding a certificate belonging to somebody else to secure a debt owed by somebody else. We will take some legal action, which we are still working on. We will also ensure that those who have been holding those certificates, for whatever reasons, are held accountable. I was told that those directives were given in the era of former President 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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