27 Teachers Fired Over KCSE Stealing, Exam Results To Be Out May 10

Education Cabinet Secretary George Magoha has announced that 27 KCSE teachers have been fired following their involvement in irregularities in the national exams.

Speaking at the Nairobi School on Wednesday morning, when he oversaw the completion of the examinations, the CS George Magoha stated that the officers revealed examination papers before they had been scheduled to take place.

Magoha said that they experienced several cases where examination officials attempted to open the papers with the intention of exposing them to candidates before the actual examinations started.

He added that they thwarted those efforts in a few centers countrywide, some of which he released to Kenyans during his weekly briefs. 35 civilians including university students had been arrested and 53 cell phones confiscated during the KCSE period.

“As we speak, security agencies are busy conducting thorough forensic investigations to find out if the gadgets were used to aid any form of cheating,” he noted.

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The Cabinet Secretary declared the exercise a 99.9 percent success. He congratulated the 752,891 students who finally sat for their exams after months of uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

As a result of allegations of violating examination administration laws, 27 officials were stripped of their various responsibilities as center administrators, supervisors, or invigilators

Their names will be submitted to the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) for disciplinary action by the Ministry of Education.

“Those who used mobile devices would also receive the results but have some of the marks deducted,” Magoha stated in a previous briefing.

He stated that President Uhuru Kenyatta had instructed that authorities should be lenient to the candidates due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic that disrupted the school calendar.