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    "id": 810474,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kiminini, FORD-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Chrisantus Wakhungu",
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        "legal_name": "Chrisantus Wamalwa Wakhungu",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I want to thank the Member for this Petition. But I was wondering whether it should have been a petition or a Motion, because the issues he has brought up are very critical. In any environment you do an exam, it must conform to the normal distribution curve. Once an exam has been set—and I speak with authority having been a lecturer in a serious university—it must be moderated and once it has been marked it must conform to the normal distribution curve, whereby we have few people failing and few people passing highly. The majority of the people are supposed to be in the middle. But looking at the Matiang’i rules and the examination setup in this country, it does not conform to the normal distribution curve. This tells you there is something wrong with KNEC. When you do an exam, whether it is difficult, it must conform to the normal distribution curve. When it comes to going to university, it is very unfortunate…I have even seen people who got an E or who never did Form IV doing a degree and getting to master’s level. You wonder how they upgraded from nowhere and you are told that they now have certain degrees. It is the highest time that KNEC and the Commission for University Education (CUE) looked into these aspects. You even see some people speaking English and expressing themselves is a problem but they tell you they have a degree. You do not know where they got the degree from. I am saying this because I do not want to term it when it comes to political positions. For a governor, you must be a graduate. Because of these issues, we see many governor aspirants having degrees overnight. You wonder where that degree came from, which university that person went to and whether those universities have external examiners. After you have been examined in a university, you need an external examiner to ascertain whether you passed the exams very well and, in that particular population, whether the normal distribution curve was there. It is something which is very critical. We must look into it. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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