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    "content": "physical appearance changes. While young, especially men, they look handsome and nice, but with time and too much beer and meat, things change. So, you can have that photo on that certificate, but it might be a trick. It is a good idea, but it can give rise to a better idea. The ultimate solution - we say we have a digital government, but it seems it is not digital as far as the Integrated Financial Management Information System (IFMIS) is concerned - lies in issuing a digital certificate that can be verified and authenticated. If we had a government that was committed to building a digital economy, we should have seen it by now. It is more than two years since the Government came into power. The foundation for a digital economy can be seen from far. If students had gotten laptops, we would be convinced we are moving towards a digital economy. If Konza City had taken off, we would be convinced that we are setting up the incubators that will underpin that digital economy. Madam Temporary Speaker, if the digital Information Technology project had taken off, we would be convinced we are moving towards a digital economy. In that kind of environment, it would be easy and feasible to say that we not only put photos on certificates, we also insist on a digital certificate. There are certain things that KNEC must do. In 2014 or thereabouts, in a court in London, some people who were service providers of KNEC were jailed for bribing KNEC officials. Corruption is corruption; whether one is corrupted by receiving US$200 or US$ 1million, it is all corruption. The details of corruption allegations against the KNEC were quite embarrassing. An official received £200 via a western union. What level of hunger and desperation are the officials of the KNEC at? The Chief Executive Officer’s child received a play station. Another set of officers received £1000. I know there are some people who say that if you want to eat a pig, eat a fat one. It does not justify corruption. The KNEC has suffered a credibility crisis and the ‘ Chicken Gate’ scandal even though it happened in United Kingdom, it is important that we take urgent and firm measures to deal with this scourge of corruption in the examinations council. This is why the examination is leaked. If you see senior officials receiving £200, what do you expect the officials at a lower level who are responsible for storing or handling the examination papers to do? Madam Temporary Speaker, corruption at KNEC and the brutal manner in which we treated our teachers is the root cause of the massive cheating that we saw in this year’s examination. There are few countries in the world where examination cheating does not exist. In China, it is a crisis. In India, there is a problem. In the United Kingdom, the same problem is coming up. In Kenya, it has been there. However, this year, it reached a level that has not been seen before. Examinations are beamed during television news prime time, a day to the next paper. There is hope that at the point of marking, cheating will be detected. It is funny that we know people have cheated and we are told to wait for the examinations to be marked so as to corroborate if there was cheating. The teachers have already said that the Government mistreated them so much, bullied them, the Attorney General went to court and bullied them using legal tactics and the Court of Appeal has overturned the award they had gotten. They are saying you can force a donkey to go to the pond, but you 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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