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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kihika",
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        "legal_name": "Susan Wakarura Kihika",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise to support the petition by Senior Counsel, the Senator for Nyamira County. I would like to add to what one of the speakers before me has said about separating the process by making every stage independent. I sat for the bar examination in the State of Texas in the United States of America (USA). What happens there is that when you go to law school, you go through the process which takes three years. After law school, different organizations do the Law School Admission Test (LSAT) that prepares you for the test. That is completely independent. You shop around for them to get the best and prepare the students. The examination is set and marked by totally different people. The purpose of that is to take away the issue of lecturers passing the students whom they have received favours from. Mr. Speaker, Sir, when the processes are so connected, the bodies could fail the students for them to pay more fees to re-sit the examinations. The re-sits then become a continuous process which messes up the students as far as self-esteem, time and resources are concerned. I also wonder whether we are admitting students to law school who are not up to par or do we have lecturers who are not good in the profession and should not be holding those positions. It does not make sense to have a failure rate that is incredibly high. There must be a problem somewhere. I urge the Committee to look into the possibility of having different bodies setting and marking the examinations. The Committee could also look into the possibility of devolving the sitting for the examinations in other counties other than Nairobi County alone. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to support the petition."
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