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    "id": 731974,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) R.N. Wanyonyi",
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        "legal_name": "Reginalda Nakhumicha Wanyonyi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for allowing me this opportunity to contribute to this important Bill. I want to say something concerning KNEC. It must be noted that in Kenya and possibly across the region, examination determines and shapes the life of a person. It is the examinations that will determine whether you will succeed in life or not. In Kenya in particular, we peg so much on exams. This has actually affected our students both positively and negatively. To me, there is something wanting about the structures of KNEC. How they pass on the exam to the student is wanting. Why do I say this? I say this partly because at the very lowest point, you are not certain about the person handling the examinations. In most cases, you find that examinations leak before they are done. When that happens, we have results that are not correct. I am an educationist and we have had cases where examinations are leaked to students. They perform and pass so highly. Some of the Form Four candidates end up in universities and land in certain courses that are very technical. For example, they qualify to do medicine or certain courses that are so technical. But because they did not understand the basic, they actually did not qualify to do those courses at a higher level. Many students are facing problems in the universities because they did not actually pass the exams. They stole the exams. This has been going on in the education sector. There are students who get leakages in the classrooms. Teaching in itself is equally affected. It is, therefore, a chain. The Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) needs to strengthen its structures. When we talk about leakages and how our students are suffering, when a school’s examination results are cancelled, believe me, the students are affected differently. There are those students who will have worked so hard and because they are generalized together with those whose leakage has helped them, they fall out and suffer for that. In my opinion, that is unfair. I blame KNEC. There are cases of corruption in KNEC. I want to give an example. A principal of a senior school was asked how many As he wanted. He said he wanted 100 As in a particular subject and he was asked for Kshs2 million. He was then called and told everything was ready and so he needed to deposit Kshs2 million. The teacher said the results would be out the following day and, therefore, did not give out the Kshs2 million. The following day when he was expecting those As, he was told that the examination results were cancelled because of leakages. This means that if he had paid the Kshs2 million, the examination results would not have been cancelled. That means that there is corruption in the office that is charged with examinations - and that is KNEC. We need to investigate KNEC and understand how it is operating. That way, we will be in a position to strengthen the systems within which KNEC operates. That is why I want to thank Hon. Agoi for bringing this amendment so that we can see how we can strengthen KNEC."
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