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    "id": 731964,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Dawood",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Abdul Rahim Dawood",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. First of all, I would like to welcome a school from my constituency. It is a public boarding primary school called Bishop Lawi Imathiu. They have come at the right time because we are debating the Kenya National Examinations Council Bill. I should congratulate Hon. Agoi for bringing this Bill. Many a times, many students have had their results cancelled without being given a chance to present their case. Many a times, results for a school are cancelled instead of the results of one or two people. A case in point is when I was doing my “A” level examinations. That was a long time ago. There was a person who was ahead of me. His results were cancelled. He was in Parklands Secondary School, a public school. He was never given a chance to appeal. He tried so much to appeal, but in vain. He was from a poor family. So, he had to repeat his “A” level examinations. After that, he went to the University of Nairobi and went on to do his Master’s degree. It means that it is not necessarily true that exam cheating took place even if those allegations are made. Many times, such allegations are never proved. With the passage of this Bill, we will have the appeal mechanism in place. Last year’s exams were very good, although I believe we still had cheating. That is because there are some schools which we know some students got over 400 marks. There are schools which had, as candidates, students from other schools where they were performing poorly, say, getting less than 300 marks, but upon getting entry in the new schools, they scored over 400 marks. So, we wonder where we went wrong. Although we are improving, we want to encourage the Cabinet Secretary (CS) for Education and KNEC to look into this matter."
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