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    "id": 729718,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute. At the outset, I want to say that I support the Kenya National Examinations Council (Amendment) Bill, and congratulate Hon. Agoi for bringing it to the House. It is a very progressive Bill. Many students have been condemned unheard in the past. Indeed, I have a personal friend who went through Form One to Form Four and her results were cancelled. Because her parents could not afford school fees, she more or less wasted four years. She does not have a certificate to show she went through secondary education. More recently, one of the schools in my constituencies, Waondo Secondary School, was affected when the results were cancelled for no clear reason. Several parents asked me to help them pay school fees. Sometimes we do not realise it is parents we condemn when we cancel exam results. Sometimes it can be three or four students who have cheated, but the examination body cancels the results of an entire class. I do not think it is fair when one or two people are mischievous, and then you give corporate punishment to an entire class of candidates. I thank Hon. Agoi because this Bill ensures that due process as provided under Article 47 of the Constitution on fair administrative action is followed and that whoever is aggrieved is heard and not condemned as indicated. It also ensures that Article 36 of the Constitution on access to information is also followed because even before I am condemned, I need to know why I am being condemned and why my results are being downgraded. For instance, when I was in Form Four, I knew I was the best English student. I got distinction two when I thought I should have got distinction one. Its equivalent this time is probably an A (minus) when I should have got a straight A. I would have wanted to challenge that so that if a time comes when the Jubilee wants to challenge my academic records, I can actually tell them that I got a straight A and not an A (minus)."
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