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    "content": "misspelled examination centres. Therefore, you will find a child with an identity card whose names do not correspond with the names on the certificate. Where KNEC makes such mistakes, Sen. Musila should bring a further amendment to say that the correction must be done within not more than a month at the cost of KNEC and not the candidate. Therefore, when certificates go to school and some are found with errors or misspelling or posting of the results, they are immediately forwarded to KNEC for correction and brought back to schools. There is no point for a student to have a certificate and start roaming from lawyer to lawyer to swear affidavits that their name was, for example, Wekesa and now they are called Wangila and that it needs to be corrected that Wangila and Wekesa are one and the same person. We do not want those kinds of things. We want a situation where people own up in cases where there are mistakes, correct it at their own cost and send the certificates to the students. Madam Temporary Speaker, once this Bill is passed and assented to, it must apply to examinations that were done in the past, present and the future. We do not want to have instances where schools say that they are owed Kshs2 million by people who sat for examination before this law was passed and, therefore, it does not apply to them and that they still would want their money paid before they can release certificates. We must obligate the Government to pay for even those certificates that are still being held in schools now so that there is retroactive application of this law to cover the past, today and tomorrow. It must ensure that all the students whose certificates are still in schools get them once this Bill is assented to. They should majestically walk to schools and collect their certificates without any hindrance. Madam Temporary Speaker, we would also like to encourage that once this Bill is passed and assented to, we, as the Senate, should not be obligated in law, but in our duties, circulate it around the country. Sen. Musila and every one of us should speak to it so that teachers know that there is a new law and, consequently, a new sheriff around the corner and that they should not in future plead ignorance. This law should be sent to all CECs of education to circulate to schools. Seminars should be held to obligate teachers to know what the new law pertains and how it will help students. This must also be made very clear. Sen. Musila should also mention that this law covers students’ certificates regardless of the school in which they have done their exams because we have a group called private schools owners who will resist. They will come up and say we are private schools, we are licensed to do business and, therefore, we cannot release certificates because we are owed money. We are saying that what they are owed for children going through their school for four years has nothing to do with the certificate they did not generate. It is not their certificate. The law must be abundantly clear to cover even the so called academies and private schools, so that they do not swing around and say, we are an association and organisation of business people, and our duty is to make money and if you do not pay us money, you are not getting your certificate. We do not want to see or hear such a thing. Sen. Musila, if you can have a description of a school to mean and include a public school, a private school or any school howsoever described under the law, so that there is no escape route for anybody to hang on onto certificates of children of poor helpless people, who have got no way of ever raising money---. 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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