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    "id": 621961,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/621961/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
        "slug": "moses-wetangula"
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    "content": "here with the former Cabinet Secretary – I thank the President for removing that man from that Ministry – he exhibited extreme arrogance and total disregard for the plight of parents, students and the feeling of Kenyans. During that meeting, I could even see Sen. Karaba who is normally sympathetic with people from his side of the Government, looking very embarrassed with the manner of arrogance that Prof. Kaimenyi exhibited here and the impervious feeling, left me wondering whether he is a parent. Madam Temporary Speaker, I have raised this matter with Sen. Karaba very many times that we have a very unique and an unacceptable, nearly illegal situation where the KNEC sets, marks, grades examinations and then disqualifies the students and there is no recourse to any appeal. If my memory serves me right, the KNEC has now come up with an even more draconian addition to their already awesome and lawful powers; that once you have been disqualified, you are not entitled to sit for any examination of the same nature in two years’ time. Meaning, a child who for no mistake of his or her own, sits an examination in class eight and is arbitrarily disqualified, cannot have an opportunity to sit for the same examination in the next year; he or she has to go and wait for two years. Madam Temporary Speaker, Sir, being a woman yourself, you know the plight of young girls. If you deny them an opportunity to re-sit the examinations in the next year, it is like telling them to elope and become mothers. In the process, we destroy very promising young Kenyans. You cannot tell a Class Eight girl child, that because her examinations have been disqualified, she should stay at home for two years before she goes back to school. It is very unfair. I have used a strong language against Prof. Kaimenyi and I have no regrets about it. He came here and looked like he had no feelings for anybody. We have parents in this county who sell all their possessions to take their children to school and those who turn themselves into beggars standing by the gate of their representatives everyday to look for money to go and pay school fees. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes"
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