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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Injendi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Malulu Injendi",
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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, I rise to support this amendment. I have been listening to people who are opposing ranking by arguing that ranking promotes cheating and drilling in schools. We cannot stop a noble thing for our children because of bad practices by our children. I would like to laud the Cabinet Secretary in charge of Education, Dr. Matiangi. The former Cabinet Secretary, Prof. Kaimenyi is the one who stopped ranking. Dr. Matiangi is correcting cheating and drilling in schools. If cheating and drilling in schools is checked as it is being checked now, we will have to introduce ranking. Because of ranking in my constituency, I was in a position to reward schools that have been performing well. Since ranking was stopped, it has been a challenge for me to identify schools that have performed well so as to reward them, in terms of development. I support ranking because beneficiaries of the same managed to work hard. Our schools worked hard because we knew very well we will be identified as number one. Through hard work, some of us are where we are. Hon. Deputy Speaker, through ranking we are in a position to identify some of the weaknesses that are there in our schools. I recall that in my constituency through ranking, we were in a position of getting to know schools that were ranked last in the country. We would have to visit those schools and get to know why they were ranked last. We would then be able to know what was affecting such schools. We managed to treat these schools and eventually they began to work hard and improve. As a matter of fact, I urge that we reconsider reintroducing ranking in our schools. As I finish, I have just been wondering. I am a first time Member of Parliament. There was a time when we spent three hours talking about ranking in a Motion that was brought by the same Member. It was the spirit in this House that we reintroduce ranking. It was to my surprise that after spending three hours talking about ranking and the whole of this House unanimously supported the Motion, when results were released, the Cabinet Secretary then did not bother to The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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