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    "content": "to school, the quality of education was not very bad. I went to England in 1995 for my PhD and I was fast-tracked. I did not do the examinations that students are normally now subjected to. However, our children, including mine, when they go England, all of them must pass through this examination just because of the shame that we have put ourselves into. It is a surprise that for the very first time, we are creating a law that will be the guardian angel to the children that we are terrorizing; because somebody just wakes up and talks of something called “collusion.” Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the KNEC has a terrible way of disqualifying students. There is something called collusion. I followed it personally because in 2012, they disqualified all the candidates in a school that I was supporting in West Pokot. They said; “how could every student in this bush school score Grade A in Mathematics?” They were 48 boys in total. Then, they nullified everything yet the examinations were done in two different rooms. The design of the school is U-shaped, so the other students did their exam in the opposite side. Then, they called it “collusion.” So, this collusion means that even the policemen who are providing security in the examination centres colluded, the same applied to the head teacher and everybody else, but at the punishment level, KNEC only punishes the child. This is shocking. If surely one thinks that collusion has taken place, whoever facilitated it should be the first culprit to be arraigned in court or dismissed from service, but this does not happen. However, in many cases, it is the children who have no voice. They are simply shut off from life. I was assisting most of these boys and that is when I realised what it is. From 2012 to date, this group of 48 boys is the most difficult to deal with. They tell me; “we passed our examinations. Senator, you are a mathematician and we emulated you. We prepared properly, competed and reached your stature. Why should we be punished when we know that we never did it?” Using the term “collusion” is a very dangerous way of hiding things. I followed it up personally to KNEC so that they could explain to me the meaning of “collusion.” They said that the matter is never opened for discussion. As soon as the students in a school have been implicated in collusion, there is no room for investigation. So, even somebody who is malicious can quickly say that there was collusion yet it is so serious. Unfortunately, most schools and some children in Kisii and Nyamira counties are implicated in collusion to the point that students have feared to sit for their examinations in some regions of Kenya. They even categorize people from a certain region. It is so serious. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the Government has enacted all other laws, but it has forgotten this one. I do not know why this is so because when I was the Permanent Secretary (PS) for Industrialisation; there was a parastatal called the Kenya Industrial Property Institute (KIPI). They have a tribunal called the Industrial Property Tribunal (IPT) so that if you have a competition and someone steals your idea and patents it, and, there is a dispute; it is not KIPI that will engage in resolving the dispute; it is IPT. Any tribunal must be led by a lawyer. Therefore, what Sen. Obure has proposed is in order. This is so because this is quasi-judicial . It has to be somebody who has firsthand knowledge on legal matters because you are dealing with a dispute. I do not know why we forgot, yet the Ministry of Education has created many institutions under it. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes"
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