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    "content": "gets into our minds. It is a very dangerous level of corruption to believe that it is by cheating that an individual can get a job. It is a moral and ethical situation which we must find out how to deal with. As we deal with corruption, we must also deal with our character. How do we ensure the values provided under Chapter 6 and Article 10 of the Constitution are adhered to? Kenyans supported Chapter 6 because they felt that their moral values had gone down. It is not only students in public schools cheating in examinations, but also private primary, secondary schools and universities practice the worst cheating than the former. In these schools, the students are manipulated to understand the examinations. Students from public schools are not the only ones cheating. Private schools drill their students such that when they sit for the examinations, they already know what is coming. The Bill should address both public and private schools because the two rely on the Kenya National Examination Council for their examination results. It is not fair for our country to go into a situation where the rich are the only ones who can access better education systems. It is through education that the poor and the rich can share a table. It was a wrong idea not to devolve the education sector because we would have dealt with so many issues. However, as much as others are complaining that challenges arose when the health sector was devolved, the challenges are there because of the leaders who are not ensuring that the systems work. We cannot blame it on devolution. Education is also devolved because the schools’ merit ranking is done at county level. Selection of students to join Form One or other institutions of learning is based on counties. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I know Sen. Musila has worked on this legislation very well. We started it as a Motion and now we have a Bill. This is the best way to deal with the rot in our national examinations and the education sector. We must face and deal with it. Instead of the National Assembly - I am sorry to say this today - focusing on new dispensation, with the powers to budget our finances, they are messing up most of the amendments that they bring. That is why the country is facing the problems we are facing today. It is because we have refused as legislators to appreciate the new Constitution and work together to see things move in this country. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the people of Kenya will blame us that they elected us but we never changed their lives. What we have done instead is that we have messed up their lives because we have refused to understand that this is what Kenyans believed in. They believed their representatives can come up with laws that can guide the country. I hope the Senate Committee on Education will follow up on this so that next year, we do not see the Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC) name the schools that cheated and those that did not. This year we want to see a difference because they did not deal with the issue when it was alive and all over. They kept quiet and, therefore, parents should not suffer in January when the results are released. With those few remarks, I support."
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