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    "id": 594983,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Madam Temporary Speaker, I start by congratulating the distinguished Senator for Kitui because he has been very painstaking on this matter. I remember him bringing a Motion in the last Parliament where he wanted to obligate head teachers to release certificates to students after sitting examinations without any delay or conditions. As we know, Motions are not as enforceable as an Act of Parliament. I am happy that he did not lose directional hope on the matter. He has brought this amendment to the Kenya National Examination Council Act so that we can embolden into the law that we need to help students. Madam Temporary Speaker, you may recall that when we went to elections in 2002, the agenda was to give universal primary education which was done. In 2007, each of the competing sides promised to give universal secondary education. We ended up with partial free secondary education because the Government then, agreed to give a subsidy of Kshs10,200 per student. They started off only with Government schools, but now they have expanded to more schools. It is meaningless, however, to purport to give any child free education when the end result in a country where the Alpha and the Omega of education is a certificate--- to let children go through school for eight years, another four years and now this disease has crept into the universities. I urge the distinguished Senator for Kitui to find a way of bringing – I know universities are autonomous, but he can also obligate universities to release certificates and degree certificates to students. Madam Temporary Speaker, I have quickly scanned through the Bill and I want to suggest to Sen. Musila that, at Committee Stage, he should look at Clause 3 where he is trying to amend Section 45(a) to remove the unnecessary bureaucracy of going through district education officers. You are just creating another bottleneck and with the levels of corruption in this country, you are simply making it possible for those education officers to set up a toll station to collect money from every student who goes there to collect their certificates. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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