33 Teachers Arrested, Several Invigilators and Supervisors, More Principals Suspended Over KCSE Exam Cheating.
Police in Migori County discovered a strange KCSE test leakage ring, detaining 23 instructors who are being held for interrogation in what may be the worst exam cheating case since 2016.
While working on a Chemistry assignment and planning to share the questions and answers with pupils at St. Mary’s Mabera Girls High School, a few instructors were detained in a Migori church.
Simultaneously, the principal of Nyambaria High School, the top-performing school in the previous year’s exams, and two other principals in Nyamira County, who serve as Exam Center Managers for the current KCSE exams, have been suspended for attempting to cheat on exams.
Zachariah Samwel, Zablon Chacha, Madam Triza, Chacha Peter, Charles Maroa, and Vincent Onyage are among the accused; they were apprehended on Wednesday while completing chemistry homework at a church.
Along with the 14 invigilators who were arrested and replaced right away, the school’s supervisor, Alper Macelina, and principal, Mary Lucy Obondo, are also being held.
This time, the little-known Nyambaria High School in Nyamira County—which finished first in the 2022 KCSE exam with a mean score of 10.89—is making headlines—but not for the good reasons.
the TSC suspended its principal Charles Onyari, the exam center manager, for his involvement in anomalies during the exams.
Students and faculty from four different schools recorded testimonies with the DCI on Tuesday, according to Nyamira County reports.
Nyambaria Boys, Sironga Girls, Gekomoni Secondary School, and St. Paul Gekano Boys are the four schools.
In addition to student testimony, principal Eva Odhiambo of Sironga Girls High School discovered two boys at Nyambaria carrying foreign material in the exam room.
The pupil is said to have been discovered in a restroom with foreign material that she purportedly took from a guard at the center. The principle resumed her responsibilities as center management, but the guard fled and the police conducted a search.
Exam paper images were found on a teacher’s phone at Gekomoni Secondary School.
Exam materials impounded at Nyambaria Boys, Sironga Girls, Gekomoni Secondary School, and St. Paul Gekano Boys, according to DCIO Paul Makonge, were carbon copies and might have come from the same location.
“The paper that was discovered in Sironga was also discovered in Nyabaria and Gekono, indicating that the materials were produced in the same location,” Makonge stated.
KCSE Exam Cheating.
This comes after Basic Education PS Belio Kipsang of Mombasa issued a statement earlier today stating that certain exam supervisors had been suspended by the government for attempting to cheat on exams.
The pupils were freed after posting a 10,000 shilling cash bond each, and those connected to the Nyamira incident are anticipated to appear in court.
A man was detained in a private testing facility in Meru County’s Nkubu district after he pretended to be a candidate for the chemistry exam. According to rumors, Alex Mutuma Mutembei took the exam on Thairora Gladys’s behalf. Gladys reportedly sat in the exam room as Mutembei worked on her paper.
KCSE Exam Cheating.
