Expelled KCSE Candidates Readmitted to School

Three KCSE candidates who were expelled from Moi Girls’ High School in Eldoret, and consequently forced to put up in commercial accommodation facilities throughout the exam period, have been readmitted to the school.

The three students all aged seventeen years were facing disciplinary action.

Moi Girls High School Eldoret

However, Uasin Gishu County Director of Education, Gitonga Mbaka, intervened and ordered that the girls, who were staying in lodgings in Eldoret, be readmitted to the learning centre so that they can sit the national test uninterrupted.

Uasin Gishu County Director of Education, Gitonga Mbaka

An interview with K24 revealed that one of the teenagers was allegedly forced out for bullying a prefect, the other allegedly had bhang in school, and the third was reportedly found in possession of a kitchen knife in school.

The girls’ parents, however, claimed the school did not follow due procedure in expelling their daughters.

“Our girls are now forced to put up in lodgings throughout the one-month exam period,” one of the parents told K24 on Tuesday, November 5.

“We now fear that, given the conditions our daughters are studying under, they will, most likely, perform poorly. Honestly, they are traumatised and humiliated,” said another parent.

In Nairobi, police on Wednesday arrested 26 students in Nairobi over suspected cheating in the ongoing Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examinations.

The students were arrested at St. Teresa Boys Primary School where 154 private candidates are sitting their 2019 KCSE examinations.

Starehe Sub-county Directorate of Criminal Investigations boss Martin Mbaya said police seized 35 mobile phones suspected to have been being used in exam cheating at the school.

The 26 suspects are expected to be arraigned to face charges of examination malpractice once investigations are concluded.

 

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