10 KCPE Candidates Give Birth, 31 Drop Out Due to Pregnancy as Men are warned

Men impregnating schoolgirls have been warned by the Government amid increased births during the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education examinations that began on Tuesday.

This year’s KCPE has seen a larger number of the girls pregnant while some delivered during the exams as some gave birth on their way to the examination centres such as a case in Kitui County where an 18-year-old girl delivered a baby boy while o her way to Makongo Primary School on Thursday morning.

“We shall go beyond our teachers, we shall go in the villagers and ensure no one is left free,” said an obviously irritable Belio Kipsang, the Education Principal Secretary while a meeting with hundreds of senior government officials.

“We will arrest even if it is parents and guardians who might be behind these pregnancies that are against the children’s act,” PS Belio warned, as he addressed journalists in Nyamachaki Primary School in Nyeri County.

Candidates have been allowed to proceed with their exams in all the cases whether in class or hospital with a majority of the cases being in Nyeri, Mombasa, Nakuru, and Nyanza region.

In Narok East, 31 pupils from different schools failed to sit the papers as they dropped out due to pregnancy.

10 Arrested after KCPE papers disappear

Test papers went missing at Oloonamuka Primary School in Narok County on Wednesday morning delaying the exams for two hours.

Field officers had to photocopy Kiswahili and Science papers from a nearby primary school to enable the 17 pupils sit their exam which happened at 10.10am instead of the scheduled 8.30am.

A security operation headed by the Narok County Commissioner George Natembeya, to trace the materials were yet to have any leads for Education CS to convene a crisis meeting with Kenya National Examination Council officials in Nairobi.