Here are the bail charges for attempted cheating in KCPE

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Are you aware that under current national exam rules you can be arrested for attempted cheating? Well you can and will even be charged in court for the criminal activity.

The entire government machinery has been mobilised to monitor the Form Four and Standard Eight examinations,

In a case study, a teacher and a KCPE candidate in Voi, Taita Taveta County were on today arraigned on charges of attempted cheating in the just concluded KCPE exam.

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The two were arrested on yesterday after they were caught with the Social Studies paper.

Boniface Ogolla, a teacher at St Kelvin Academy and his student Omar Salah, denied the charges and were released on bail.

Voi Resident Magistrate Hellena Nderitu released Ogolla on a Sh 200,000 cash bail or a Sh 500,000 bond while Salah was set free on a Sh 100,000 cash bail or Sh 200,000 bond.

The case will be heard on November 7.

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On Thursday, Education CS Amina Mohammed said that no cheating was detected in the exam.

She said that a multilateral security agency that was deployed to man exam centres ensured that any malpractices were thwarted.

Ms Mohamed seeks to seal all loopholes in the examinations, including stamping out collusion which led to the cancellation of results of 1,200 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examination candidates last year.

On cases of cheating arrest yet another form one student was on Tuesday caught sitting the KCPE examinations at Eburi Primary school centre in Kisii registered as a candidate at Scania Academy a private school.

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Vera Reuben, 14, was caught by the sub-county security team on a routine monitoring of the ongoing KCPE.

Police, in a report on the incident, said the Nyabonge secondary school student was registered by her father without her prior knowledge.Reuben Mogaka, a deputy head teacher at Nyabonge primary who is in police custody.

“She was only informed to go and write the examination by the father after she officially closed for December holidays,” the police report reads.

Vera’s uncle is the brother of Charles Mogaka the Scania Academy proprietor. He was found marking the class eight pupils attendance register at the latter’s home.

The head teacher of the said academy was also arrested after failing to produce the Standard eight pupils attendance register.

Before the exams commenced the national examiner named six counties where it said school principals had laid out elaborate plans to help students cheat in the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education, which kicked off on Tuesday.

They were Meru, Kiambu, Garissa, West Pokot, Kisii and Wajir, Kenya National Examinations Council chairman George Magoha said, adding that parts of Nyanza were also being investigated.

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He said the council has given the names of principals suspected of involvement in the malpractices to security agencies.

Principal Secretary Belio Kipsang said examination officials guilty of compromising the security of test materials will be suspended and that candidates in such centres will not be allowed to continue with the exercise because the results will be nullified.

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