“Don’t lower your guard during the ongoing national examinations,” Education CS urges stake holders. Education cabinet secretary Prof George Magoha has urged all stakeholders involved in the ongoing class eight national exams not to lower their guard.
Speaking in Machakos town when he witnessed the opening of the examination container in Machakos town, the education boss urged both education officials and the provincial administration to work together to ensure success of the primary school examination exercise underway.
Magoha raised complain on lack of enough police officers to guard examination centers urging police commanders across the country to ensure every center gets two police men. He added that the government through the ministry had set aside funds to cater for the security personnel manning all schools.
Prof Magoha was accompanied by top security and education officials in Machakos County led by Machakos county commissioner Fredrick Ndunga and county education Director Shamsa Mohamed. Mr Ndunga who had earlier briefed the media on exam preparedness urged all involved stakes to ensure a conducive environment for all candidates.
The officials toured Machakos Baptist primary school to oversee distribution of the exam papers. There are 1,069 examination centres in Machakos County, 836 public while 233 are private schools according to Machakos County director of education Shamsa Mohammed.
Machakos County has 14 Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC) containers with 38,730 candidates sitting for the ongoing KCPE examinations. 19,601 are boys while girls are 19,104. The CS said the examination was going on well across the country without much challenges.
“Yesterday I was in Kiambu county where I selected Thika and everything went on well. Each centre manager had two askaris. I also went through to Gatundu South sub county where I visited several schools and confirmed they were all adhering to the concept.” He said the issue of assigning two police officers per center manager might not be very important in KCPE exams, but when we start KCSE exams next week, there must be and there shall be two officers per examination centre.”
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