Education Cabinet Secretary Prof George Magoha revealed students who gave him a headache during the 2019 KCSE exam period.
While the overall cases of exam malpractice declined to 1,309 from 2018’s 4,519, CS Magoha revealed that more and more students were resorting to phones.
In 2019, some 100 mobile phones were confiscated from students before they could use them to cheat.
Out of the 100 phones, some 35 were confiscated in Eastleigh after adult students sitting the exam at St Theresa Primary School were found with the phones.
CS Magoha lauded a junior chief in Eastleigh who is said to have aided DCI officers in arresting the 27 students from the exam centre.
Detectives revealed that the suspects had been communicating via WhatsApp to collude with individuals outside of the exam centre.
Similarly, CS Magoha congratulated some two police constables who helped to bring down KSCE exam impersonators in Kisii County.
During the raid, a school principal, supervisor, invigilators and impersonators were arrested.
Magoha appealed to Interior Cabinet Secretary Dr Fred Matiang’i to promote the two police officers involved in the arrests of the impersonators.
There was a significant spike in collusion cases in the 2019 examinations with some 4,355 cases being recorded against 2018’s 1,158.
The CS, however, downplayed the cheating cases as a drop in the ocean considering some 699,745 students sat the yearly exams out of which 125,746 are awaiting direct entry into Universities.
EXAMINATION IRREGULARITIES
No examination leaked
100 mobile phones confiscated during exams
21 cases of exam malpractices detected
A chief in Eastleigh should be honored by the President
2 police men in Kisii should be promoted by CS Matiangi #KCSE2019 pic.twitter.com/RHJ395Yg6K— Citizen TV Kenya (@citizentvkenya) December 18, 2019