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    "content": "education officer shall be held responsible for the loss of any certificate in their custody.” The importance of that will be that we will create a reservoir where crooks can go and buy certificates from corrupt deals to the detriment of the deserving students. That would mean that we rearrange Clause No.45(a) so that what I have said is 4, and the others fall accordingly. I want to take you again where we can improve it. That is Clause No.45(b) on certificates. Sen. Musila has covered it very well. However, we can improve it if we rename Clause No.45(b)(i) to be what it is, 45(b)(ii) to remain and introduce 45(b)(iii), to read “lost certificates must be replaced free of charge by the KNEC, once proof of the loss is ascertained.” Sen. Musila knows that there are many children whose houses are usually makeshift structures. They catch fire, get rained on, and the certificates are defaced and cannot be replaced subsequently. Those are the amendments I want to bring in to improve this good Bill. I want to make the following remarks. First, the Constitution, under the Bill of Rights, assures Kenyans of their citizenship. To demonstrate that you have right of citizenship, they either allow you to get a birth certificate, an identification card or a passport. Similarly, if the same Constitution speaks to the right to education to our children, then we must make it mandatory that this right be expressed with free access to education in primary, secondary schools and colleges. It should be followed with a right to being awarded a certificate or a degree. We must all note that it is a lie that students pay the KNEC and not the school, to set the exam, examine them and give them a certificate. The only thing that students pay for, which the schools can purport to withhold, would be progress report or the school leaving certificate. Otherwise, the certificate or diploma is paid for from KNEC. I want to conclude by sharing with you the story of a young girl who is completing training in Kiganjo Police Training College. Her name is Nyaya Shirenje. She comes from Kakamega County. She had tried to become a police officer for five years. She could only go hoping that they would accept her with the result slip which the bursar sneaked to her. When she did the fourth form, the father sold the only family cow that they had. However, it could not complete the school fees. There was a balance of Kshs11,200. When I paid that balance, I was then caught up in confusion because I do not subscribe to corruption. However, I wanted the message to go to the recruiting officer in Nabakholo, that, that was a very deserving case. I could not plead for favour because of what we had gone through for five years. So, I told her to go to the field and then I drove and sat down. I watched as they ran and the girl emerged number one. She went through tests and was taken on the first go. I want to thank the officer who took her. Now, she is an officer. This is how serious it is. She had tried five times and she was approaching 26 years. She was going to miss completely. I support Sen. Musila and I am proud of him. I want to warn the Jubilee Government that having failed to pay our teachers, give laptops to our children and they have also failed to examine our children, even as we remove them in two years’ time, we will hold them responsible for the damage they have 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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