22 candidates from Karega Day Secondary School in Kigumo, Murang’a County are yet to receive their last year’s Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) results.
According the reports, the former candidates were allegedly involved in examination malpractices that led to the cancellation of their results.
Insider reports state that the majority of the candidates had repeated at the school eyeing to attain higher grades after their Kenya National Examination Council cancelled their results.
Karega Day Secondary School had presented 215 candidates in the KCSE exams.
Nationally 1,180 candidates had their results cancelled after they were implicated in the examination irregularities, compared to 840 of the previous year.
Meanwhile, the effects of low student enrolment has led to the closure of two secondary schools in Murang’a, as several other day schools are being monitored with a view to merge them.
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Mwuru and Wahundura secondary schools in Kiharu and Mathioya respectively have been closed after they failed to attract Grade 10 students.
Murang’a County Director of Education Phillip Wambua said the teachers in the two schools have been posted to other schools.
“The property in the two schools will be handed over to the management of the nearby primary schools, based on their were established in the community land,” said Wambua.
Other schools that failed to attract Grade 10 learners are Mathare ini and Yamugwe secondary schools in Kigumo and Kiharu.
He added that in Kigumo six schools attracted few Grade 10 learners and in Kahuro subcounty in Kiharu seven schools have registered low enrolment.
By Juma Ndigo
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