Gucha Sub-County Deputy County Commissioner Esther Kungu has assured candidates and teachers that they will have adequate security during the ongoing National Examinations.
The Commissioner was speaking at her Ogembo office today morning when she officially led other county officials and headteachers to open containers containing this year’s KPSEA and KJSEA examinations for delivery to different centres.
She warned anyone who might try to tamper with the examinations or leak information to the candidates that they will be arrested, charged, and imprisoned under the law.
She asked candidates to face the examinations with confidence and avoid fear of police officers on their compounds, instead regarding them as their parents who are in charge of their security.
She was accompanied by Gucha Sub-county Police Commander, Sub-county Director of Education David Oyoko and area examination Officer Ibrahim Nyamosi, among other examination officials.
Oyoko said that all 61 Primary Schools in the area prepared candidates for KPSEA. At the same time, 10 of them will offer both KPSEA and JSEA examinations.
“We have made sure that all registered schools with their enrolled candidates start the examinations well, and we hope everything will end successfully,” he said.
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The officer asked examination Centre Managers, Supervisors, and Invigilators to conduct the examinations with dignity, enabling candidates to produce credible results at the end of the exercise.
He asked examination centre managers to carry both examinations in separate bags to avoid any mix-up during their distribution in the examination rooms.
He asked the managers to mark the paper packages clearly and distinguish them from each other by their sealed envelopes, which are green for KPSEA and pink for KJSEA examinations, respectively.
He said that the number of candidates sitting the KPSEA this year increased compared to last year. He attributed this to consistent sensitisation of the populace by education stakeholders, such as Chiefs, their assistants, and Nyumba Kumi groups, who mobilised the community in campaigns against illiteracy.
He, however, decried the small number of girl-child candidates from the region in this year’s examinations and encouraged parents to provide balanced support in the education of both boys and girls.
By Enock Okong’o.
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