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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) F.I. Ali",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Fatuma Ibrahim Ali",
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    "content": "I support this ranking because it is a very useful exercise. If we ask students and pupils who are here whether they prefer ranking or not, I think they would support ranking. It has been said that ranking is not good for people from marginalized counties. Where I represent, Wajir County, I strongly feel that ranking will help us and it will help people who are marginalized. When you rank schools and students, we profile properly areas where there is strength and weakness. As I speak, as a Member of Wajir County, I do not know the rank of my county in terms of its performance. Sometimes one of the ways to demotivate people who perform is to conceal information and deny sharing of information. Ranking is important for parents, pupils, students, communities and regions. Why I am supporting that is because ranking will help institutions which aim to achieve quality performance. I am sure that if we had adhered to the results and the analysis of ranking where the Ministry aimed to reform schools that have poor performance, those schools would have performed better. We should differentiate between what the State has failed to do and the importance of ranking. I strongly support ranking because it motivates individuals, parents and regions to effectively compete with each other. In this Parliament, every day we see some element of ranking in terms of who speaks more and who does not speak. Some of us who speak less feel challenged to organize ourselves to speak more and to speak with substance. I strongly support. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I am really worried by the way the Ministry has not engaged stakeholders on whether to abolish ranking or to sustain ranking in this country. We do not need to downplay why we need to do ranking all over the world or particularly in Kenya. I have received many text messages from my electorate to support 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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