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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Lesuuda",
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        "legal_name": "Naisula Lesuuda",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to add my voice to the statement read by the Chair of Committee on Education. I want to start by congratulating all the students and all those who were involved in ensuring that we have made history in how our exams are conducted, the period and the manner exams are marked quickly. If you were listening to CS Dr. Matiang’i, you would wonder what we have been doing as a country in terms of managing exams, giving out the results and ensuring that Form One students go to school together with the other students. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I have two point to make. One is to congratulate the CS. It clearly states that it starts from the head. If the head knows what it is doing, everybody else will follow suit. We always say that it is all about the public and how they behave. Public policy says how the top person conducts himself, the juniors will also do that. I want to congratulate the CS and encourage him to keep up that spirit. We remember how we were all rushing for quick fixes of closing schools when there was burning of schools and he said he will not close the schools but we will make sure that the candidates will sit for the examinations and it happened so. We pray that he will continue with the same spirit. As we prepare for the release of Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KSCE), there is a motion we have always discussed in this House by Sen. Musila about schools withholding certificates. We have sung this and said schools should have a mechanism of knowing the needy students so that they can get their certificates and maybe get a plan just the way we do with the Higher Education Loans Board (HELB). We need to think how they can repay the money to the schools later. There must be many other things that have contributed to the success of the KCPE examination. We thank the Government for scraping the registration fees. I echo what my colleague, Sen. Billow, has said. We should ask the Cabinet Secretary and his team to look at some of the factors that contribute to poor performance in some counties. We should encourage those schools and meet some of their needs. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I congratulate girls for doing well. In most counties, more girls sat for the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) Examination. The Government needs to focus on counties like Samburu and Wajir, which have cultural practices to ensure that our girls go to school and complete their studies. I urge the Cabinet Secretary to focus on private schools and how they operate. We wish him well as he continues with his work. I congratulate the pupils from Samburu County for performing well regardless of the hardship issues that they continue to face. Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir."
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