Education
Cabinet Secretary Jacob Kaimenyi has said that two police officers were
arrested in Kilifi County after being caught unsealing Kenya Certificate
of Secondary Education (KCSE) exam papers and photographing them using
their phones.
Speaking when he appeared before the National Assembly’s Education Committee on Tuesday October 27, 2015, Kaimenyi said that the officers’ aim was to later send the images via Whatsapp.
Just the day before on Monday October 26 that police officers were involved in KCSE leakage.
Kaimenyi, who also recently, added that 14 teachers, 79 students and one parent found sending question to his son had also been nabbed in various parts of the country and charged in court.
He said this in defense of accusations by the Education Committee that his ministry had flopped in curbing the alleged rampant KCSE leakage, reported Daily Nation.
The CS noted that this withstanding, the media was ‘exaggerating the extent’ of the .
Kaimenyi was taken to task by Kibra MP Ken Okoth who asked why the ministry or the Kenya National Examination Council (Knec) could not provide any documents to the committee, as proof of measures taken against those previously caught in exam cheating.
The Committee’s chair, Murang’a Women Rep Sabina Chege, wondered why the ministry had not sought assistance from the cybercrime unit to establish the source of the circulating Whatsapp messages containing exam leakage.
Okoth recommended that Knec utilise its allotted KSh 4 billion properly to handle the leakage issue, such as hiring private security firms to help in the transportation of the national exam papers to the regions.
Speaking when he appeared before the National Assembly’s Education Committee on Tuesday October 27, 2015, Kaimenyi said that the officers’ aim was to later send the images via Whatsapp.
Just the day before on Monday October 26 that police officers were involved in KCSE leakage.
Kaimenyi, who also recently, added that 14 teachers, 79 students and one parent found sending question to his son had also been nabbed in various parts of the country and charged in court.
He said this in defense of accusations by the Education Committee that his ministry had flopped in curbing the alleged rampant KCSE leakage, reported Daily Nation.
The CS noted that this withstanding, the media was ‘exaggerating the extent’ of the .
Kaimenyi was taken to task by Kibra MP Ken Okoth who asked why the ministry or the Kenya National Examination Council (Knec) could not provide any documents to the committee, as proof of measures taken against those previously caught in exam cheating.
The Committee’s chair, Murang’a Women Rep Sabina Chege, wondered why the ministry had not sought assistance from the cybercrime unit to establish the source of the circulating Whatsapp messages containing exam leakage.
Okoth recommended that Knec utilise its allotted KSh 4 billion properly to handle the leakage issue, such as hiring private security firms to help in the transportation of the national exam papers to the regions.
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