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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wandayi",
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        "legal_name": "James Opiyo Wandayi",
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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, the first issue is on the Departmental Committee on Education, Research and Technology. Last week, I raised a matter of serious national importance that touches on the integrity of national examinations. I was then advised by the presiding Speaker to seek leave of the House to move a Motion for Adjournment that afternoon, so that we could discuss the matter. Subsequently, the Motion was rejected by the substantive Speaker. I was then advised by the substantive Speaker to extend the Petition to the Departmental Committee on Education, Research and Technology, so that they could invite the Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) to explain to this House what is going on. However, a week later, nothing seems to be happening. More importantly, we read in the media that the ongoing Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examinations are being stolen all over. More critically, the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Education, Research and Technology is reported to have blamed the police for leaking and selling examination papers to candidates. Hon. Deputy Speaker, this is a matter that is so grave that this House cannot continue to wish it away. The future of the children of this country is at stake. Therefore, we need an emphatic direction from you, so that this Committee can, within a day or so, make a determination on the matter of examination leakages in this country. That is the first issue."
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