By John Majau
A Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) candidate at Emejen Primary school in Isiolo County sat her exams while in labour pains as another at Rumate Primary took her exams at Oldonyiro Dispensary after giving birth yesterday morning.
County Director of Education James Nyaga said the girl sat Tuesday and Wednesday papers while in the condition as health officials said she was not due to deliver.
“The girl [in labour pains] is in the school while the other [who delivered] is sitting the exams at the dispensary,” Mr. Nyaga said after opening an exam container outside the County Commissioner’s office in Isiolo town.
Meanwhile, a girl who was badly injured in an accident involving a motorbike and a military bus in Isiolo town in March this year while taking 2021 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education exams will sit this year’s KCSE exams starting Friday this week.
Halima Kinya who was riding home on a motorbike at around 4:30 PM on March 17 after sitting her third paper was injured after the bus rammed into the rear of the motorcycle.
She could not continue due to the injuries that saw her transferred to Kenyatta National Hospital where she was admitted for several months.
The education official confirmed that the girl is among the candidates sitting this year’s KCSE exams at Waso Secondary school in Bulapesa ward.
In Tharaka Nithi, a Grade Six Pupil at Kirundi Primary school in Tharaka died on Tuesday evening after he was hit by a lorry at Kamathina area while going home.
The Kenya Primary School Education Assessment (KPSEA) candidate was alighting from the moving lorry with reports indicating that he had earlier helped to load sand at a nearby river, when he fell and was ran over.
Residents said the boy had proceeded to the river for the work after completing his day’s papers.
