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    "id": 599495,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Elachi",
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        "legal_name": "Beatrice Elachi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker Sir. I also rise to support this Bill bringing into perspective what happened a few weeks ago when our children started examinations. When we look at the situation now, we ask ourselves as a House of Senate, if indeed, the children who a have just finished their Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) exams will really one day not be affected by what we saw of the examination management and procedure; on how the examination was handled and the cheating that took place. I want to thank Sen. Musila that we are now coming to the core of the challenges which parents have faced for many years in terms of paying school fees for their children. They end up finding themselves going to school, sometimes the gates are closed, you cannot access the school to go and plead that your child has been given a position to join university but does not have his or her certificate and the documents required. Many parents have suffered in this country because of that. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it is time we overhauled the whole system of the Kenya National Examinations Council starting from the clerks. You find that while you are a parent labouring for more than 12 to 14 years to see your child at another level of education---. I remember the children of Maranda National School. I will never forget what those parents went through. Their children had passed, but because of a computer error, of which even when you ask the Kenya National Examination Council, that if you can disqualify children because of a computer error, then it means the manual one is more terrible. Those children had a rough time because they repeated a whole year to sit for exams and get their certificates. As we move on, we need to amend the Bill and ensure that we have penalties for both sides. We cannot have a situation where one party dictates to the other without arbitration. Both parties must take responsibilities and be fair to each other. If we do that, the children cannot go through this suffering. This has made the children change their values. That is the reason why we have got more cases of exam cheating or leakages because they want to pass their exams. This notion that we must have certificates in this country has also killed our education system. 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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