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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Okoth",
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        "legal_name": "Kenneth Odhiambo Okoth",
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    "content": "exams. They are clean and credible exams that will help our children in future. We need people like them to come into Government. And we must support them regardless of whether we are in CORD or Jubilee, to do a good job for Kenyans. Then we reduce the tensions. In the education, when the children’s rights were being betrayed and exams were being leaked, it was only the rich who had access. It was unfair. We were cheating our children because these exams lose credibility. If you try to go to Makerere University or the University of Dar es Salaam with a transcript from a Kenyan exam, you are told you have to take entrance exam. Now we have put our children back to where they are supposed to be. This kind of incompetence and lack of seriousness about work, like we see in the lands sector from the CS and his team and NLC as this Report clearly speaks to, has a chance to cause conflict. When we deny people homes, livelihoods, a sense of identity in their community, we threaten to evict them unprocedurally and forcibly, those are all violations of international standards. The President comes here every year and gives us a report on our international obligations and reiterates how we are holding on to those obligations yet we have NLC failing him. I cannot blame the President. The President is not a commissioner at NLC and he is not the CS for Lands. But at some point, he looks bad because he is the President. If we are going to be helpful to him as the House in charge of oversight, hold him accountable through this Committee, these people who run these agencies should be asked to do their job so that they serve Kenyans well. Not just for politically making the President to look good, which they should, but also because it is important because the Kenyans they serve deserve to be served well. I thank the Committee for their diligence. I know this is one of the last opportunities we get a chance to speak this year together as a Chamber. Other business might pull us back again briefly. I want to wish all my colleagues a blessed holiday season and a blessed new year wherever they travel with their families and constituents, on behalf of the people of Kibra. I pray for all our students who got their KCPE exam results today. It is a special message to those children, their parents and teachers that your child’s value is not pegged to a result of one exam. Whether you got 200 marks or 400 marks, you are a valid child and you can succeed in many ways. You can be a soccer star. You can be a superstar musician. You can be talented in many ways. As we go into Christmas, let us keep embracing our children. And let us not define them purely by their KCPE results. There are outstanding children--- I now give the Floor to the Member for Othaya, Hon. Mary Wambui."
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