List of Amina’s tough security measures that is scaring mwakenya association

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As Form fours and standard eight pupils prepare to kick start the national examinations, Education cabinet secretary Amina Mohammed has put in a tight armed mastermind that will curb cheating as well. This year will see the toughest measures that will been adopted for the first time.

Among the new rules that will paralyze the mwakenya family include the order that all center managers cannot transport examination materials to the centers unless accompanied by armed officers.

They have also been asked to ensure that examinations will only be placed in one of the examination rooms where all candidates, armed police and examination invigilators will be in full view.

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Ministry of education cabinet secretary Amina Mohammed

The aim is to prevent a trend that developed last year where some schools prematurely opened the second paper of the day, usually starting at 11.30 am thus exposing it to candidates just before the actual examination begun.
Centre managers, who are also school heads, are under instructions not to allow any examination official into the examination rooms with mobile phones.
In addition, even the centre managers though allowed to carry mobile phones wont be allowed to walk with them into examination rooms.
On Tuesday, candidates will sit mathematics, English and English composition while On Wednesday, the candidates will take science, Kiswahili and insha and then sit social studies and Christian Religious Education the following day.

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Ms Mohamed has ordered that examination containers which are currently 459 be opened daily at 6 am.
“No centre should start distributing examination papers before the stipulated starting time,” she said.
The containers, she said, will have a double locking system manned by the sub county directors of education and the deputy county commissioners.
“All question papers will be escorted by armed security officers every day of the examination from collection to return of the answer scripts to the container and back to the exam council,” the CS added.

More than 1,000 special monitors drawn from various ministries and departments of government have been lined up for the exercise too as according to investigations by a kenyan newspaper, this year’s KCPE and KCSE examinations have attracted an unprecedented excitement within government, with virtually the entire executive willing to play a part in what is expected to be the country’s most guarded exercise. Related image
Already, the ministries of Education and Interior and National Coordination as well as the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) have cancelled leave for all their staff to allow them to participate in the monitoring of examinations, which end on November 29.

Data from Kenya National Examination Council (Knec) indicates that other than the 70,000 security officials and more than 150,000 teachers have been deployed for the exercise.Some 222 schools have been put under heavy scrutiny following their involvement in previous examination malpractices.

Do you trust that Amina’s team will be able to curb the exam cheating trend of the nation with these new measures?

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