Magoha warns unscrupulous KNEC officers

Education Cabinet Secretary, Professor George Magoha, has warned unscrupulous officers at the Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC) offices working with cartels against trying to orchestrate exams cheating in the fourth coming national exams.

Prof. Magoha disclosed that his office has received intelligence that some officers at the KNEC offices are calling principals of certain schools in the country seeking for confidential students’ data so that aid them in exam cheating.

“I want to warn very firmly the people working in KNEC who are calling principals asking for data so that they can give them As. This is what was happening in later years and we will not allow it to happen. Those people at KNEC should know that we already know and we are monitoring them and we will be more strict this time round, ” Magoha said.

Speaking at Nyamira girls’ high school in Bondo while commissioning CBC classrooms, Professor Magoha said the cartels are targeting naive principles with the promise of boosting the examination results of their respective schools.

“We are having over two million students sitting exams next month and government will not allow a few individuals to confuse the students, ” he said.

“Am instructing all principals that are eager to give out students details in exchange for better results to stop wasting their time and use the money they intend to use to buy fake results for better purposes because they will not succeed,” said the CS.

He assured the public the fourth coming examination materials are ready and there will be no cheating in the exams.

He added that the ministry has already deployed over 240,000 teachers to man the exams schedule to start on 7th march.

Prof Magoha on the other hand expressed confidence that his ministry will deliver the targeted CBC classrooms by 7th march as scheduled.

He disclosed that so far two thousand four hundred CBC classrooms have constructed around the country will seven hundred already handed over.

“I believe that we shall beat the March 7th deadline for CBC classrooms. Most of the classes have been completed with the remaining ones at the roofing stage.” Said the CS.

Nyamira Girls school principal Mrs Jesca Ambasa commended the CS of the efficient work done saying the three new classrooms that we handed over will greatly improve infrastructural needs of the school.