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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Masadia",
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        "legal_name": "Alfred Agoi Masadia",
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    "content": "of forming another body which is going to cost taxpayers some money. I think we limit it to the position where if there is an irregularity then the tribunal can be formed by the CS. We have issues in Kenya now. The CS for Education has struggled to save the education sector by eliminating examination irregularities, but in the process he has killed careers and lives of over 800 students because everybody seems to think there is a problem with the last examination results. The teachers have complained there is a problem. Parents have also complained there is a problem. I have even heard vice-chancellors complaining that there is a problem. The students themselves complain there is a problem. But the Jubilee Government says that is one of their achievements. I think there is something wrong; to save 5,000 students from irregularities but kill the careers of a whole 800,000 students. Therefore, we need to look at this afresh. We need to find out what happened. Were the exams too difficult or were the examiners the problems? Or, were the students the problem? We have to find out what exactly happened. If this happens again, we are going to face a major crisis in future. We are better off with more students passing, going to university and having no jobs than trying to get a number of students to fit the public spaces in universities. Even as we talk now, private universities may not have students to enrol. We have foreign universities which have stationed themselves here that admit students but now they have no students to admit because the pass mark has been compromised badly. Therefore, they cannot go ahead and admit students. So, it is a major problem. By trying to cure the issue of examination cheating, we have created a bigger problem in the examination centres and examination management. People are also asking for an inquiry to find out what happened. As I subscribe to that, we also need to get a team of people to get exactly what happened. Who was the problem? Were the students too stupid? Were the people who set the exams too clever for the students? Did the teachers not teach what was given to them? Did the markers not follow the procedures the way they have been following in the past? There are questions that we need to answer. If we do not answer these questions, we will still have this situation. Even if we make good laws, they will not help our students. Therefore, this is a very important amendment because it will save students. This is because they will have an opportunity to appeal. The Bill says that after exam results are out, you must be given in writing as an individual and not as a group--- Do not write to the school and say there was collusion between so and so. No! Each student must be given an opportunity in writing to know what happened and the mistake they made leading to cancellation of results. After that students will have an opportunity to appeal to the tribunal. The appeals tribunal will have an opportunity to finish that work within a certain period such that before they start registration for the next exam, it would have finished that work. This will ensure that if a student wishes to re-sit the exam he or she will have an opportunity to register for it. The next aspect of this Bill is offences. We have heard from the CS that there has been monkey business going on at the KNEC. Whatever that means, I do not know because it might fairly mean there was no fair play in that area. I looked at the Act and realised that KNEC has structured itself in such a way that when their officers mess you cannot take them anywhere. Section 19 of their Act says that no member, officer, agent or staff of the Council shall be personally liable for any act or omission done or committed in good faith in carrying out any of the functions of the Council under the Act. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, this thing called “good faith” is very subjective. We cannot know if they have been doing these things in good faith or not. Although it has since been 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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