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    "id": 810472,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Pokot South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David Losiakou",
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        "legal_name": "Losiakou David Pkosing",
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    "content": "my addition to the Committee on Education and Research, that this is a serious matter. This issue of qualifications is really a serious matter in this country, particularly now that there are so many people who went through university in this country, were awarded degrees, but they had a C (plain) at Form IV. When they seek jobs with the TSC, they are told: “You do not have a C+, which is the minimum qualification to go to university.” The question is: Was that a problem of the student? It is not. Universities which train people are our universities. Why did the university not say: “Because you do not have a C+, you cannot be admitted for this programme.” People have invested a lot of money to qualify only for them to find that they cannot get jobs in our country. In the same light, I urge this country to proceed further than considering this Petition and propose some laws and regulations so that students who have qualified with a degree in education, but had a C (plain) in the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education, can also get jobs like any other Kenyan. Then we can say: “From here onwards, you cannot get a degree in education if you do not have a C+.” If we allow that, then we have condemned so many Kenyans. I take the example of somebody from West Pokot who had a C from a very rural school - where you went with me one day - coming to the University of Nairobi and obtaining a degree and then TSC cannot recruit him. What will that poor boy do? He did not create the UoN. It was created by Kenya. Was it offering an illegal degree? No, it was not. I think this can be expanded at that level so that we do not disenfranchise many Kenyans. I thank my colleague, but he can move further to bring amendments to the Basic Education Act so that all these people can get jobs. I thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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