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    "id": 662395,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/662395/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.O. Ahmed",
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        "legal_name": "Abdikadir Ore Ahmed",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity. At the outset, I support this Bill. I want to be brief in the interest of time and many colleagues also want to contribute. Ranking leads to competition. We know that any competition enables one to make a lot of efforts to achieve or strive to attain a target. It is a motivating factor and it is a source of accountability for the individual student and the teachers as they work. We give them resources from the national Government through the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NGCDF) and the contribution by parents. We need a source of accountability and this is one way to make sure that they are doing the work that they are supposed to do. However, I support as has been said by many of my colleagues. Having said that, we need to make sure that, as we go the ranking way, we cannot have it as a one size fit it all. Schools are different in shapes and categories with different facilities. Some schools in hardship areas such as North Eastern are not well staffed. The teachers that teach in a school in Wajir are not the same as the ones who teach in Alliance. We very well know that teachers have departed from those schools and we are grappling with using teachers who have not finished college education. So, for that reason, we need to come up with a criterion to make sure that the ranking is at different levels such as the national schools, schools with facilities and schools from Arid and Semi-Arid Areas (ASALs). That is the only way schools with facilities or no facilities will have a measure to ensure that they are ranked. Lastly, before we embark on ranking, we need to ensure that the Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC) is beyond corruption and is up to the task. As it is, it is riddled with corruption. Every time, there is rigging and cheating. We need to ensure that, that house is clean before we can be able to say that there is proper ranking for our schools. Thank you so much for giving me the opportunity."
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