The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Dr Nancy Macharia has promised that the Commission has enough manpower to see through this year’s Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) which is ongoing.
According to Dr Machaia, the government is committed to ensuring that KCSE candidates from volatile areas of Baringo, Pokot, Laikipia and Samburu will get special attention.
Macharia was speaking after presiding over the opening of the KCSE examinations container at Nakuru East Deputy County Commissioner’s office in the company of CAS Eric Wafukho.
“TSC has made 70,486 teachers available and have been vetted to administer the ongoing examination. We have made strides in the administration of the examination and we can assure the public that we are going to deliver an examination that is free of irregularities,” said Macharia.
Wafukho on his part added that the government is committed and has disbursed finances for all the examination irregularities and they are expecting the process to go on and complete smoothly.
On his part, the County Commissioner to Nakuru Erastus Mbui said that all examinations centres have been boosted with more security and all examination centres have been marked.
He also urged those involved in the ongoing examinations to be cautious and affirmed that there will be no chance of there being exam malpractices of any kind.
Another university student arrested over examination malpractice
This comes after the Directorate of Criminal Investigations announced the arrest of a serial examination fraudster. Oscar Brighton is allegedly a serial fraudster and a third-year economics student attending Zetech University.
He is being held behind bars for allegedly selling fake Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) and the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examinations papers.
Detectives attached to the Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC), monitoring and surveillance unit arrested him while in possession of fake examination papers.
Some papers were found in his mobile phone where he had created WhatsApp groups where candidates were required to deposit Kshs. 1,600 for Humanities Kshs. 2,600 for science subjects.
Brighton was an admin to two groups having a total of 72 members who had bought the examination papers.
The suspect is alleged to have been doing this for a while and is set to be charged with contravening section 28 of the National Examination malpractices Act 29 of 2012.