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    "content": "Therefore, we should be insisting that the KNEC which has a direct relationship with a candidate who is examined, to be giving the certificates directly to the students. Madam Temporary Speaker, with increasing levels of poverty in this country, the majority of students from poor families are the ones who are finding themselves as victims of this practice. Sen. Musila talked about 500,000 certificates being withheld. You will find that these certificates belong to students from poor families, orphans and children of single parents. So we are denying them opportunities for personal advancement and this should never be allowed to happen in Kenya now. You will recall that in 2003, the NARC Government introduced free primary education to allow access to education for all children in Kenya irrespective of their social or economic status. You will remember that this was received with considerable relief at that time. Later on in 2008, the Coalition Government extended this gesture to day secondary schools, again with specific intentions to allow poor students to benefit. So, by withholding the school certificates, we are reversing all the gains. I think we should not allow this to happen. We are subjecting these students to extreme suffering because they cannot join any college. Eventually, they degenerate into despair and hopelessness. These are the people who are cultured into all these acts of terror and crime. Some of them drift into drug abuse, petty crimes and later into major crimes. For female students, if their certificates are withheld, they start roaming the streets of our towns. The cure to this is what Sen. Musila has prepared in this Motion. We should stop this practice immediately and release these certificates to students so that they can get on with their lives. Madam Temporary Speaker, this is an important Motion which this House must support immediately, pass and together with the national Government through the Ministry of Education ensure that this practice is stopped immediately in our schools. As a nation, we need to move together. With those few remarks, I beg to second."
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