This archive report was first published on 25 November 2019.
Homa Bay Teacher Goes Missing After Marking KCPE Exams in Nairobi ¶
Published on November 25, 2019
Moses Odumbe, a 49-year-old teacher from Kogana village in Homa Bay county, has gone missing after traveling to Nairobi to mark the 2019 Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) exams.
Odumbe, who is a teacher at Kogana Primary School in Rachuonyo North sub-county, left his home on November 8 at 5:30 pm for St. George's Girls Secondary School in Nairobi where he was to mark the exams.
According to his wife, Joyce Odumbe, the father of six arrived in Nairobi and spent the night at his nephew's home in Kikuyu, Kiambu county, before waking up the following day for the examination centre.
However, Odumbe never returned home after the exams were over, and even the results released by the examination authority did not prompt him to come back.
His wife, Joyce, began getting worried when the father of six could not contact them even when the teachers were free.
She said, 'By the time the (KCPE) exam results were being released, my husband should have returned home because marking exercise had ended.'
With the help of her relatives in Nairobi, they visited the Kenya National Examinations Centre (KNEC) and were informed he had signed in on the first day but never returned the following day.
Odumbe's family reported the matter at Kendu Bay and Kilimani Police Stations in Homa Bay and Nairobi counties respectively.
