Imagine preparing yourself whole heartedly for the national exams only for the joy to be stolen by realizing your name is not registered for the exams? Better yet the Knec chairman states that its not a big deal and the issue should not be sensationalized.
Prof Magoha today claimed they could not compromise the whole examination because of the few candidates whose names were not registered citing that it would provide leeway for exam cheating.
“Some people want to use that as an avenue for leakage. We cannot allow this. Let us not sensationalize the issue,” he told a newspaper by phone.
While the Education ministry ensured that they were prepared totally for the national exams, they have already faced a few problems across the country as police in Kakamega have arrested a man for allegedly posing as a candidate during music practicals at Mukuyu Girls’ Secondary School in Kakamega County.
A security guard has also been arrested in Kajiado County for trying to sneak fake papers into an examination centre on Monday night.
Meanwhile it is unheard tears for eleven candidates who did not begin the primary school national examinations with their counterparts at Shimo la Tewa Prison in Mombasa on today as only only 33 candidates were registered.
It is sad that Amina’s administration could afford to put two choppers on standby incase of an emergency but could not ensure that these candidates were registered for their exams to avoid this mental frustration they are going through right now
The pupils from other parts of the country were sent to the borstal at the prison but their names were not in the list of registered candidates.
“The 11 were not registered at the borstal. That is why their papers were not there,” said a top Coast education official who did not want to be named.
An education official privy to the matter, and who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the Kenya National Exams Council (Knec) decided that the candidates will take the exams next year.
Do you think it was fair that the candidates didn’t take their exams?