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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to support the Statement by the Senator for Bungoma, Sen. Wetangula, on the heavy deployment of police officers to take care of the exams in the country. Police officers have been deployed everywhere; you can imagine the kind of resources that are being spent. We are talking about the economic situation in this country, but the amount of money this nation will spent for the two weeks during exams will be enormous. We need to go back to our basics and ask ourselves why we are at this point. The first and most important thing is because we have lost it, as nation. If, for the sake of exams, parents are ready and willing to spend so much money to buy the stolen exams for their children, what are we inculcating in our children? What are we telling them? Are we telling them that they cannot pass exams unless they cheat? We have many professors and other educated people in this country, including myself, who passed their exams without cheating. It is the rottenness that we have in the country and the level of corruption. This is all about corruption. As we fight corruption, we must fight it everywhere. We have spent a lot of money deploying all the CSs and the human resource; this includes the money that has been spent on the helicopters, fuel and everything that has been spent during this short period. Even the Deputy President was in the field invigilating exams. Since when did officers at the level of Deputy President invigilate examinations? Mr. Speaker, Sir, let us not show our children how to steal exams. It is our own weakness that is bringing us to this point, where we have to police the children and spend a lot of money on examinations, which should not cost anything. I support this, but it is not only about the police presence. It is about presence of everybody. We are wasting a lot of resources. It is because of our rottenness as a nation."
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