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    "id": 810469,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Ng’ongo",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. As I support this Petition, I just hope that the Committee will look at all aspects of it, including why our children have been failing in exams since the so-called Matiangi system came into place. It is important to fix exam cheating which was becoming a cancer in this country. Everyone is agreeable to the fact that some action needed to have been taken, but we need to explain why all our children cannot attain grade C+ and above. I thought the Ministry was changing the system of examining our children. This is in line with what the Hon. Member has just spoken about. Finally, we need to be cautious as to lower the entry point to the higher learning institutions because we are not an island. We are operating in a global world where other countries are watching us. I would hate to see a situation where other countries downgrade the value of university degrees from this country just because we are admitting children with lower grades. Instead of lowering the grade, we need to find out why our children are failing. If it is the method of examining our children that is faulty, we need to look into it. Also, we have to do something that is not going to disenfranchise children from poor backgrounds. Some of us are where we are because of a fair system which allowed us to compete. If the system was compromised in any way, many of us would not have reached where we are today. So, the system that we would come up with needs to take care of any method of manipulation. We have been very comfortable with the way exams have been conducted in this country. Even though there have been cheating, it is not attributable to some senior forces in this country where, if I am a Member of Parliament, I would influence grading for my children and yet a peasant cannot influence his or her child’s performance. Hon. Speaker, I thank you."
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