Do not pressure the candidate, Uhuru urges parents

President Uhuru Kenyatta has urged parents not to give the candidates pressure as they prepared to sit for their final examinations.

According to President Kenyatta, “The best parents can do is wish their children the best in exams,” he said, and warned them against helping their children to cheat in the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) and Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) tests.”

In addition he said, “Children should be set free and allowed to do the best they can.”

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The president further insisted saying that every child has their own talent and show be let to follow their dream.

He was speaking during the commissioning of the milk processing machines at the New Kenya Cooperative Creameries Sotik Factory.

This came after the Kenya National Examinations Council and the Ministry of Education raised the red flag over plans to cheat in some regions, ahead of the exams which began in high schools on Monday.

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He further hit out at youthful leaders holding positions to do with service delivery, saying they have failed him and the nation.

He said they have failed in their mandates and are leading in corruption.

“Their work cannot be seen. Aged leaders have often delivered,” he said and challenged youths to seize opportunities that will help them prove that they can do the same.

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The exams started amid mixed reactions to tight security steps that the government took to curb cheating.

The president earlier told off educational commentators who claim the measures amount to militarisation of the education system, a state which they said may result in panic.

He warned parents and teachers against compromising the honour of Kenya’s national examinations.

 

“Where does a child get Sh100,000 to pay for a stolen exam? It must be their parents who are paying,” he said at a fundraising and commissioning of the construction of the Anglican Church of Kenya (ACK) Kapsabet Plaza, Nandi County.

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