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    "content": "There are very many questions to be answered, but I believe it has a lot to do with what the CS is doing right now. He is trying to come up with very many reforms in the Ministry of Education. These reforms must be backed by the Senate. We must back the reforms because without doing so, we will be in the list of shame in the world for not having reliable and dependable examinations. This will be very bad for us because when we produce somebody from our schools and the person cannot compete internationally in various universities, then we will have lost our “sight”. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, you can imagine of a student who passes Class Eight through cheating. The student then goes to Form One in a very good school and finds that it is not possible for him to cope. What eventually happens is that he commits suicide. If the boy manages to cope, he will be forced to again cheat in the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) to get a Grade A. He will get a cluster of 48 points and pursue any degree he wants. He could decide to do engineering or medicine, but he might decide not to do the examination. He could either commit suicide or start saying that the Vice Chancellor should go. There might be other lecturers who might have found their way to that university through unfair means. They will support the system of cheating and that is what we call a rotten society. If we are not careful about our education, we are going to be regarded as a rotten country and society. This is what triggers corruption. If there is no fairness in education, you will find that there are some areas in Kenya which will do the exams for the first time and---"
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