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    "id": 540758,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. F.K. Wanyonyi",
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        "legal_name": "Ferdinard Kevin Wanyonyi",
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    "content": "my constituency. The fee of Kshs4,000 is a bit too high. It is discriminative and I think we should charge this according to the area. Above all, my suggestion is that the examination fee should be pegged on the school fees so that when a parent pays school fees for the first year, second year, by the time he pays for the fourth year, he would have completed paying the school fees if the Government is not taking over. I am told the Government is supposed to have taken over the paying of school fees. If that is not going to be done then let it be in such a way that when a parent pays school fees from Form One to Form Four, examination fees is included. Most of these parents are not able to pay and we can cover that in our bursaries as well. Last but not least, the examination fee is not helping us at all because in cases where we have problems with shortage of teachers, the Government does not take up the matter. We have problems out there. Parents are moving up and down and I can tell you that in my constituency, parents line up for bursary. In the middle of the year, they again ask for the examination fee. It is a problem. We are also paying for teachers because of the shortage of teachers. Parents are paying for teachers and some of those teachers are not even trained. Untrained teachers are paid to fill up the gap because of the shortage of teachers. Lastly, most of those principals are crooks. They run away with some of those fees. There was a case in Kitale, where I come from, where a teacher took examination fees but failed to remit it. The students thought they had been registered only to find out that their examination fees had not been paid. Let us do away with this and if it is a matter of readjusting, let it be paid with the school fees. There is also an issue of the Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) having a problem with raising funds and I do not know where it is going to come from. As we do away with examination fee, we should also look for ways and means of assisting the KNEC. At the Third Reading, we should have an amendment on this Bill to take care of KNEC. I support the Bill and let us do away with this so called examination fee because it is not productive."
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