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    "id": 940542,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Shiyonga",
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        "legal_name": "Masitsa Naomi Shiyonga",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for allowing me to support this Statement. I want to congratulate Sen. Wetangula for this Statement. It is timely, as examinations are taking place in this country. It is disheartening to see heavily deployed police officers manning examination centres. The deployment of these police officers does not amount to making our children any cleverer than what they have learnt for the four or eight years they have been in school. Who said that when police officers man these examinations, there will be decrease in cheating? In fact, we see cheating continuing to take place. The children that are being guarded are still underage. Those who were doing primary school examinations are aged between 12 and 13 years old. You look at this child and there is a police officer passing by with a gun, what do you expect this child to remember when they see a gun? Do they remember the gun or what they read? Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is so absurd and intimidating for the Ministry of Education to think that when they deploy police officers to rotate in classrooms, the children are going to pass, or that anything fishy is not going to happen. Law enforcement in this country has turned to be another scam. Why do I say this? Despite the heavy deployment of these police officers, who are supposed to take care of the robberies that are happening all over in town, they have turned to our children to make sure that children are intimidated. Mr. Speaker Sir, I want to conclude by saying that it remains outside the status of the system that is supposed to guard our children. If you look at the incident that happened in Tharaka-Nithi, it scares the children and even gives the parents an attitude that the schools have turned into other institutions, where if a child is not stealing the examinations, they are supposed to be manned to pass. It is so bad and unworthy. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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