This archive report was first published on 8 November 2019.
On November 8, 2019, the Principal Secretary for Early Learning and Basic Education, Dr. Belio Kipsang, announced that the Government would reevaluate the administration of National Examinations to private candidates.
Dr. Kipsang stated that the Government would refocus on private candidates to ensure stricter management of examination centers, where unauthorized materials were being accessed by candidates.
He made these remarks at the Dagoreti Sub-county headquarters, where he supervised the opening of a container for the ongoing KCSE Examinations.
Dr. Kipsang noted that regular students in public and private schools had not posed any challenges to the administration of examinations, but some individuals who had registered as private candidates were found to be playing games with the administration.
These individuals would register for the examinations with the intention of letting others impersonate them, or would receive assistance through mobile phones concealed in their private parts.
Dr. Kipsang's comments came a day after police in Starehe Sub County arrested 26 candidates for suspected cheating in the ongoing examinations.
The police also confiscated 35 mobile phones suspected to have been used to cheat in the examinations at St. Teresa Boys Primary School in Nairobi.
There have also been incidents of impersonation of candidates, mainly of private candidates in Nyanza region.
