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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Manje",
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        "legal_name": "Joseph Wathigo Manje",
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    "content": "accessibility of education to our people. Therefore, it will improve the level of literacy in the country. This should be for both public and private schools.There is the tendency of benefitting only the students in public schools forgetting that we also have students in private schools in this country. The importance of education is very well known. This is the only thing that can break the poverty cycle in our country. Education improves national cohesion. When you have voters who understand, then it is good for you as a politician because you can easily convince them. An educated person is able to adapt to an environment very quickly. He can fit anywhere in the world. He or she also appreciates the changes in the environment like Information and Communication Technology (ICT). Therefore, those are some of the benefits of education. When we introduce free examinations, we should not compromise the quality.We have a tendency of making everything free.We then make it to be of very low quality. So, even as we make it free, we should check that we do not compromise the quality of education. KNEC should try to improve and curb examination cheating. There has been a lot of cheating in examinations.This is lowering the acceptability of examinations in Kenya. Long time, I used to hear people say that examinations that are normally given in this country are acceptable internationally. However, we are now getting a lot of cases of cheating in examinations. This lowers the quality of the academic certificates offered. We should introduce a Bill in this Parliament that will ensure that there is a contract between the person who is doing the examination and KNEC.The person being examined should get the certificate as opposed to going for the certificates and then the head teachers insist on retaining them if the students have not paid fees. With those few remarks, I support the amendments."
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