The Council of Governors (CoG) has called for the immediate audit of the 2023 KCPE results before the marking of KCSE begins today to restore stakeholder trust in the country’s examination system.
Led by Education Committee chairman Dr Erick Mutai, the CoG wants the Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC) to fix the confusion in the award of marks to candidates to avoid a recurrence and restore the dignity of examinations in the country.
Dr Mutai said it was disheartening to get candidates being awarded marks for subjects they did not sit, like those wrongly awarded for Sign Language instead of Kiswahili.
He said the mistakes were a matter of great concern to all the stakeholders and should be rectified urgently.
The Kericho Governor, who was speaking during the Kericho KUPPET branch AGM, added that all stakeholders, both locally and internationally, are keenly following the developments and the solutions the Council will offer.
KUPPET officials at the meeting, including National Treasurer Mwethi Njenga, his assistant Ronald Tonui, and branch executive secretaries Paul Kimetto (Bomet) and Charles Ng’eno (Narok), lamented that KNEC was embroiled in a myriad of administrative challenges that need to be addressed.
“Several questions have been raised as to why the Council was in a hurry to release the results without looking into the existing discrepancies that have poked holes in the integrity of the whole system,” Tonui said.
KNEC has admitted that there were errors in the examination results affecting some of the 1,406,577 candidates, which according to them have been addressed.
A total of 8,523 candidates scored 400 marks and above in the exam, 352,782 scored between 300 and 399, and 658,278 scored between 200 and 299 marks.
Away from exams, KUPPET Executive Secretary Mary Rotich called for the immediate placement of JSS teachers under secondary schools, pointing out that the current arrangement putting them under primary school heads was misplaced and irregular.
“The JSS teachers are secondary school-trained and should be placed there. The current arrangement is highly misplaced and should be rectified,” she said.
She called for the confirmation of teachers recruited as interns, saying plans for renewal of contracts was also irregular.
Decrying the high taxation by the government, she said the union will not accept any more deductions from their payslips.
By Benedicto Ng’etich
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