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    "id": 599545,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Hargura",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Godana Hargura",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Bill; the Kenya National Examination Council (Amendment) Bill (2015). I thank Sen. Musila for having been persistent. When he was moving it, he mentioned this is not the first time and that he had started a long time ago. I urge him to keep it up until the full intent is achieved. It is a timely Bill because it is one of the issues that many Kenyans are going through. I come from a part of this country where levels of illiteracy are very high. We are at the level of 80 per cent. We all know the advantages of being literate and the disadvantages of being illiterate. Looking at individuals from the same family, the quality of life that an educated person leads is more often better than that of an uneducated person because the opportunities that they have in life are different. We are now talking about an important aspect of education. Whether one has gone through an education system is supported by one’s certificate. It is one of the most important things in this part of the world. Having it or not, makes a lot of difference in one’s life. As I said earlier, it is the proof of your education and the only way that you can move from one level of education to another, for instance, from secondary school to a tertiary college or university or to get employed. It is, therefore, an important document in life. Madam Temporary Speaker, the situation as it is currently is that schools are holding the certificates claiming the outstanding balances in terms of fees. Schools have to come up with ingenious ways of ensuring that fees are paid instead of penalizing the students. They know very well that it was not the student who generates the fee, but the parents, guardians or the sponsor. Therefore, the child cannot be penalized after he or she has exerted himself, got good grades in the examination, but he cannot move ahead because somebody somewhere did not meet his or her responsibility of paying school fees. We have to legislate on this to ensure that such a person’s life is not curtailed because somebody did not pay the fees. Kenyans, in their wisdom, passed the Constitution, 2010, which provides for right to education. Article 43(1)(f) says:- 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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