Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) has told Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC) to reveal to Kenyans how 840 students who wrote the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) were involved in examination irregularities leading to their results being cancelled by the Council.
Nyandarua County KUPPET Executive Secretary Julius Macharia stated that KNEC should provide full information on what transpired so that parents whose children were affected by the alleged malpractices can know what really happened to them leading to the cancellation of the results.
The examination results were recently announced by the Education Cabinet Secretary Julius Migos.
“KNEC should be held responsible and should tell Kenyans how 840 candidates got involved in the irregularities so that we can know who really contributed to those young Kenyans suffering” said Macharia.
He said KNEC should not be left Scot free to just address the media on the cancellation of 840 KCSE candidates without providing clear evidence on how the cheating took place and the culprits involved.
“Kenyans are demanding to be told who are behind this scandal. If these candidates entered examination rooms with textbooks or invigilators, supervisors and other exam administrators aided the theft, then let’s name and shame them. Also, if the students received the examinations through digital platforms then how did the papers leak without the knowledge of KNEC?” asked Macharia.
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He said that as KUPPET their responsibility was to ensure all candidates and teachers maintain high standards of integrity during examinations to ensure children get results that reflect their academic capability.
He added that they had received complaints from examiners who were marking theKCSE papers, to the effect that some candidates answered questions exactly as the subject marking schemes raising a lot of unanswered questions on how, where and who gave them the answers prior to the tests.
“We have evidence from examiners who marked 2024 KCSE. They are revealing that some candidates from specific regions of the country produced exact marking schemes of KCSE and we demand from KNEC and Education CS to tell Kenyans how the said students got hold of the confidential documents,” said Macharia matter-of-factly.
He also said some examiners despite detecting many examination irregularities in KCSE, feared to raise querries with concerned KNEC officials for fear of intimidation and possible disciplinary action with the support of the Teachers Service Commission (TSC).
“ When an examiner detects some malpractice and reports to KNEC, he is put at the Command Centre, where he is told to write a report, and prove his allegations and this has made many examiners to ignore such serious transgressions to avoid trouble,” said Macharia.
By Peter Otuoro
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