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    "content": "do this. Many parents are poor in this country. Therefore, if at the end of the day, a child is aggrieved they should access this bastion of justice for free. There must be a provision for Sen. Obure to provide for the management of the tribunal within the budget provisions of the KNEC. For KNEC to be careless and reckless and allow examinations to be stolen and be passed on to unsuspecting candidates, they must bear the cost of the challenge to that reckless behaviour. Madam Temporary Speaker, there are many outside there - like you have represented a slum constituency in this town - who do not earn Kshs200 in a month. There are also people in the villages that cannot access Kshs500 in a year yet they struggle kuombaomba na kufanya kazi until they see their children to school. They are then asked to pay Kshs5,000 to challenge a non-reasonable decision made by the Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC). Such persons give up in life. If the child is a girl, the parents will ask her to get married because the groom might pay dowry that will recover the cost of education spent so far. If the child is a boy, he will be asked to get married and to procreate. That will not help the children of this country. I encourage Sen. Obure to deal with this so that access to justice is unfettered and easy. Since the Tribunal is a quasi -judicial, when they make decisions that parties do not agree with, they must have access to the High Court for review. The office of the national defender should be operationalised because we have that provision in the Constitution. If a party cannot afford fees for the Tribunal, there is a likelihood that such a party will meet the filing fees in the High Court to challenge a decision of the tribunal. That will give us a complete picture on the philosophy, magnanimity and the foreword looking content of the Bill that is going to help children that are aggrieved. We must have the capacity to use the backstreet language kumulika mwizi . We must mulika mwizi and know who causes all these. I congratulate Sen. Obure for this Bill and I support it fully. I hope my suggestions will find favour with him so that he can bring some amendments to improve the content of this otherwise good idea."
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