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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Were",
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        "legal_name": "Petronila Were Lokorio",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for the opportunity to contribute to this Statement by Sen. Wetangula on the heavy deployment of police officers in examination centres. It has come at the right time. An examination, on its own, is a very intimidating and fearful process, especially to Class Eight pupils who are doing them for the first time. Therefore, the presence of heavily armed police officers might even make whatever they had been reading to evaporate from their mind, and that could affect the results. I wish that these police officers were deployed to where the teachers are; at the staffrooms, because that is where the cheating happens. The children do not cheat on their own. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I hope that the Ministry of Education will take this into consideration, and go back to the measures that have been used in the past. Before the rampant cheating, there used to have only two police officers per examination centre. Their work was to guard where the examinations were stored. If these police officers were to guard the exam, it would be much better. We should not allow them to be near our children when doing the exam. At this time, the whole country is undertaking these national examinations. Therefore, having a heavy deployment of police officers to the examination centres deprives other sectors of security in this country. The rest of us are exposed to levels of insecurity. The Ministry of Education needs to understand the perception of the candidates who are doing these exams. What is their perception about the presence of police officers in their centres? Where the children seem to be fearful, it should be reconsidered. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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