Education Cabinet Secretary Ezekiel Machogu has suspended nine examination center directors for examination malpractice.
However, the CS said the KCSE exam is going well with 903,260 candidates appearing for the exam.
The suspended center director were managing the testing centers affected by the violations noted by the Ministry of Education.
Misdeeds include smuggling unauthorized documents into the exam rooms, the presence and use of phones in the exam center, identity theft (impersonation), and collusion between candidates and exam invigilators.
While addressing the media during a tour of Kolanya Girls National School, in Teso North, Busia county on Friday to oversee the sealing of the Chemistry practical paper, Machogu detailed that 46 candidates have so far been implicated in exam malpractice and most of them were found with foreign material in the exam rooms.
The CS noted that from the time KCSE started, they have managed to have a multi-agency approach where apart from Ministry of Education.
“We also had the Ministry of Interior and the Ministry of ICT, and due to that particular approach and the kind of mechanism and measures that we were able to put in place we were able to be very effective in preventing and curbing cheating and malpractices,” Said the CS on KTN TV.
The CS disclosed that cases of collusion were three, while impersonations were two.
The CS noted that the centre managers who were implicated were asked to step aside.
The number of students implicated in the mess were 46.
The CS assured the nation that all has gone very well because they have not had cases like before because of the new rule that was put in place of increasing the number of containers and distribution centres where centre managers who were coming for the papers in the morning and also went for the same in the afternoon were avoiding cases of early exposure which was the case before.
