Machogu and Njengere Summoned By Parliament Over Errors in KCPE Results

Machogu to face MPs over KCPE results errors

Education CS Ezekiel Machogu is expected to appear before Members of Parliament on Thursday to explain the inconsistencies in the 2023 Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) results.

Kenya National Examination Council (Knec) Chief Executive Officer David Njengere will also face the National Assembly Education Committee to shed light on the KCPE results.

The House team is looking into the discrepancies during this year’s KCPE results such as cases where some schools had similar marks whereas others missed marks.

“We have directed the Cabinet Secretary and Knec officials to appear before this committee to give intricate details on what happened. From our own assessment, the situation is worse compared to last year when there was also similar confusion,” said Committee chair Julius Melly.

“It’s quite unfortunate that despite the extensive probe into the KCPE results of last year, we are still faced by this saddening development. We are however keen on ensuring that it is resolved,” he added.

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During yesterday’s plenary sitting, Manyatta MP Gitonga Mukunji sought to have the House discuss the matter and filed an adjournment motion to that effect.

In his motion, he reiterated that pupils were being discriminated against and there was a need for the legislators to address the same once and for all.

The dispute over the KCPE results is currently in court with parents from two institutions seeking to block Form One selection.

Two parents whose children were candidates at Kitengela International School and Set Greenhill Academy Mixed Day and Boarding and Junior School in their case filed on Monday questioned how Knec marked KCPE and graded their children.

They accused Knec of giving the students poor scores, claiming this was a first for the learning institutions and the children.

The court papers read that Kitengela International had the majority of the learners scoring 400 marks and above in school exams. However, the national exams indicated that the KCPE candidates managed 358 marks and below.

Kitengela International has written to Knec, lamenting that the results were not a true reflection of what the candidates had been scoring.

Several parents from across the country have also expressed dissatisfaction with the results on November 23 and faulted KNEC for the irregularities.

Knec had earlier admitted to the irregularities and revealed that it had received appeals over errors in results obtained through the shortcode 40054 that was provided by the Ministry of Education.“

It was brought to the attention of Knec that results for some candidates had a misalignment of the marks and grades in Kiswahili as they were placed at the Kenyan Sign Language,” read a statement from Knec CEO David Njengere.

A Kenya National Examination Council official died after he reportedly collapsed in Muthambi, Tharaka Nithi county, while at work.

Humphrey Njeru Kiria, 40, the head teacher of Ntakani Primary School, is said to have suddenly collapsed before he died while delivering KCPE and KPSEA examination papers to Muthambi subcounty director of education on Tuesday.

Kiria died 30 minutes later at a hospital within the subcounty while undergoing treatment.

Eastern regional police commander Joseph Ole Napeiyan said Kiria’s death was reported to Ntumu police station in Muthambi subcounty as sudden death of KNEC centre manager incident.

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“It was reported by the area director of education that yesterday at around 6.30pm while receiving KCPE/KPSEA examination answer scripts from centre manager at Muthambi subcounty headquarters (Marima), one Humphrey Njeru Kiria, 40, and the headteacher Ntakani primary school suddenly collapsed and was rushed to nearby Muthambi health centre where he was diagnosed to have respiratory distress and became unconscious,” a police report seen by the Star on Wednesday stated.

Napeiyan said the official died during resuscitation at the facility at 5pm Tuesday.

He said the deceased was reported to have been asthmatic and the attack was likely to have been caused by the current weather conditions.

The body was moved to Chuka General Hospital mortuary awaiting a postmortem.

Police boss said they had launched investigations into the incident.

Hundreds of candidates in far-flung areas of the restive North Rift were forced to sit their Standard Eight and Grade Six examinations at night due to the late arrival of the papers owing to impassable roads. In some other areas, candidates for either the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) or the Kenya Primary School Education Assessment (KPSEA) examinations had to be relocated to nearby schools after roads leading to their institutions became impassable.

In Samburu County for instance, candidates at Anderi and Kurungu Primary School in Samburu North sub county started writing their KCPE and KPSEA examination at 3pm on Monday and finished the last paper at around 10pm. A bus ferrying the papers got stuck in a river in Nyiro division early in the morning and a second vehicle, brought in by the sub-county education officer, a land cruiser could not reach the school either after it reached another flooded river. Pupils from the two schools, who had been moved to Nyiro Girls Secondary School from where they wrote their exams, sat for their first paper, Mathematics at 3.15pm, second paper, English at 6.50pm and Composition at around 8.40pm.

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Headteachers Peter Lesilla (Anderi) and John Mong’are (Karungu) told reporters that they were forced to improvise torches and lanterns for the candidates to use while undertaking the last two papers. Later on Monday night, the sub county Director of Education Husein Gufu, directed the two headteachers of Anderi and Kurungu Primary to relocate their pupils to South Horr Primary for the next two days from where they are to sit their examinations. Anderi Primary is 17km to South Horr Primary while Kurungu Primary is 8km away. Parents complained that despite the candidates being relocated to a centre that is kilometres away from their schools, the authorities had not made any arrangements from accommodation, food and other basic necessities for the candidates.

In Tot, which is on the border of Elgeyo Marakwet and Baringo counties, there was a slight delay after a local bridge was flooded as a result of a heavy downpour. KDF, Police presence A spot check by People Daily established that security was stepped up in the region with Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) and the Kenya Police maintaining their presence at Kapindasum Primary School in Baringo South which had come under attack from armed criminals last week. Rift Valley Regional Coordinator Abdi Hassan said additional security personnel had been deployed to Kerio Valley, Baringo South and Baringo South, which have in the recent past experienced the new wave of attacks which has left many people scores dead. “We want to assure our parents that everything is under control. We have dispatched enough security personnel to ensure that all learners sit their exams without any hitches,” said the administrator.

Hassan said normalcy has been restored in Kapindasum. During the incident, more than 227 Grade Six and Class Eight learners were revising in their respective classes when their school came under attack. The learners lay on floors for over six hours during the daring attack as security personnel engaged armed bandits who had surrounded the school. However, Kapindasum Primary School headteacher Elijah Kiptoon said no ugly incident has been reported. “We are hopeful that no incident will be reported during the examination period.

Despite the security challenges we remain optimistic that our learners will do well,” said Kiptoon. School reopened “The learners were beginning to pick up the pieces after their school was reopened after many years of closure but last week’s incident traumatized them a lot,” added Kiptoon. Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki was yesterday hold up in a security meeting with top security officials from Baringo and Rift Valley at Loruk in Baringo County. Kapindasum Primary School is among many other schools which were reopened early this year following a directive by President William Ruto. This is the second time the school has come under attack with armed bandits firing into the school last week sending learners and teachers into a panic. In Nandi East, Deputy County Commissioner (DCC) Leonard Mgute disclosed that five candidates had failed to turn up for the KCPE) that kicked off on Monday. Confirming the incident, Mgute noted that the parents of the five candidates had relocated from Nandi to various parts of the country. He said they had began investigations to determine why the candidates could not turn up for their KCPE exams.

“On Monday, we recorded five absenteeism cases in Nandi Hills Township Primary School in the KCPE category. Upon preliminary investigation, we found out that their parents had relocated from Nandi; however, we are yet to conduct further investigation to determine why the candidates could not turn up for their national examinations,” explained DCC Mgute. He also noted that three KCPE candidates who were forced to write their papers from the Nandi Hills Sub County Hospital after being admitted.

The administrator further noted that they had experienced challenges while transporting examinations to various centres due to impassable roads as a result of heavy rains that were experienced on Sunday evening. “We experienced a challenge in transporting examination papers to various centers in the interior of Nandi East Sub County. The roads were rendered impassable due to heavy rains experienced on Sunday evening.

We delivered the papers late, resulting in the late commencement. Going forward, we have resolved to start transporting the remaining papers early enough to ensure candidates start writing them as per the stipulated time,” he said. According to the DCC, Nandi East subcounty has a total of 106 KCPE centres with a total of 4,248 candidates comprising 2,173 boys and 2,075 girls, whereas in the KPSEA category there are 107 centers with a total of 3,526 candidates comprising 1,835 boys and 1,691 girls. In addition, five private candidates are sitting for KCPE at the Nandi Hills Township Primary, of which two are men and three are women.

Teachers have been banned from being members of social media sites which have been flagged for being used to peddle fake examination materials.

It will no longer be business as usual for teachers to join some 33 WhatsApp, Telegram, Facebook, and X– formerly Twitter– groups during this examination period.

Teachers have been banned from being members of social media sites which have been flagged for being used to peddle fake examination materials.

It will no longer be business as usual for teachers to join some 33 WhatsApp, Telegram, Facebook, and X– formerly Twitter– groups during this examination period.

Teachers Service Commission (TSC) Chief Executive Dr Nancy Macharia said: “TSC will not hesitate to take stern disciplinary action against any teacher found to be capable of abetting examination malpractice.”

In a circular seen by our team, Dr Macharia listed some 33 social media sites and channels that she said the country’s 380,000 teachers are prohibited from joining.

She said the sites have been flagged to peddle fake examination papers.

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“Unscrupulous persons have started sharing or publishing fake documents purported to be examination materials… The government has flagged the attached social media platforms disseminating fake examination material,” the circular dated August 7 reads.

The circular is copied to the Kenya National Examination (KNEC), Regional Directors, County Directors and Sub County Directors.

On Saturday, TSC director staffing Antonina Lentoijoni amplified Dr Macharia’s circular.

“Earlier this week, we sent a circular to all teachers and schools warning against being members of any social media forums perpetuating malpractice in the 2023 examination and assessments,” she said.

She added: “I call upon all the supervisors, invigilators and centre managers to desist from examination malpractices and ensure that the examinations are conducted in accordance with the set rules and regulations in order to deliver a credible examination.”

Antonina further said: “I direct that all those who will be involved in the administration of this year’s examination and assessments uphold integrity in executing their roles and exercise vigilance to deter any form of examination malpractice.”

She spoke at a meeting attended by three Principal Secretaries Raymond Omollo (Interior), Belio Kipsang (Basic Education) and John Tanui (ICT) at St George Primary School, Nairobi to explain the exam roadmap.

It also emerged the Communication Authority will identify, flag and pull down social media posts as the crackdown on agents of examination malpractices targets digital platforms.

“We are monitoring our social media platforms on a 24-hour basis so as to ensure any forums that are meant to defraud Kenyans on the pretext that they are sharing sample examination papers will be brought down very fast,” CAK acting director general Christopher Wambua said.

Wambua said they are working with the social media platforms, the Directorate of Criminal Investigations and the National Cybersecurity Centre in the fight against exam malpractices.

And the DCI warned it will arrest members of the identified social media platforms claiming to have examination papers. Nicholas Kamwende, the DCI deputy director, indicated they will be responsible for tracking and arresting those flagged by the CAK.

“Our business is to ensure those who are trafficking social media messages are arrested and the law takes its course,” Kamwende said.

PS Kipsang expressed confidence the strategies will arrest the problem of early exposure.

“Early exposure is where you gain access the same day the examination is done, and that is what the parliamentary committee observed and was also identified by the presidential working party and that is why we are going to pick this year’s examination twice,” Dr Kipsang noted.

It has been  established that a strategy to crackdown on social media led to the arrest of one suspect on Thursday last week.

According to the DCI, Nicholas Ngumbau Kalewa alias ‘Mr examiner’, claimed to have both the primary and secondary national examination papers and opened over 10 Whatsapp and Telegram accounts where he sold fake papers from between S|h1,500 to 2,000.

“The examiner had opened over 10 Whatsapp and Telegram accounts where he was hawking the fake examination papers at a partly Sh1,500 per paper and Sh2,000 for a complete examination with a marking scheme,” stated the DCI in a post on social platform X.

Detectives later infiltrated the group posing as students and saw the teacher caution over 900 members in the groups not to engage in other matters especially in his inbox as he was busy attending to his clients.

The teacher further cautioned them of scammers and that he was the only one who had legit products.

The strategy to secure the examination will also involve the enforcement of the ban on the use of mobile phones in examination centres.

Only centre managers will be allowed to use mobile phones strictly within their offices. And no teacher will be allowed within the premises of the examination centres.

This is as it emerged that all secondary school teachers will be deployed as examination officials away from their stations in a wider scheme to secure the national tests.

“The commission has identified and vetted a total of 223,000 teachers as supervisors and invigilators and, at the same time, has identified 71,760 centre managers to be involved in the administration if this year’s exams,” Antonina said.

Omollo said that they have set up two command centres to deal with malpractices and any arising emergencies.

He indicated that they have set up another support centre at the CAK for coordination and response to any issues and emergencies that might occur.

Omollo said the security committees and disaster and emergency response offices will coordinate the logistics in areas affected by rainfall.

The Kenya National Examinations Council CEO Dr David Njeng’ere has assured the country of the security of KPSEA and KCPE examinations scheduled to kick off next week Monday.

Njeng’ere said the government was well prepared to ensure the exams are delivered without hitches despite the anticipated El Nino rains and isolated cases of insecurity in some parts of the country.

“We want to assure the country that the examinations are secure in all the 32, 000 centres for KPSEA and 28, 000 centres for KCPE across the country,” Njeng’ere said.

He addressed the press when he led a team of officials in monitoring the examinations’ preparations at Athi River Primary School in Mavoko, Machakos County on Friday.

Njeng’ere said there were 576 KNEC examination containers across the country.

1, 282, 574 candidates, according to KNEC, will be sitting for Kenya Primary School Education Assessment (KPSEA) examinations while 1, 415, 315 are expected to sit for KCPE and 903, 260 others KCSE.

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“We are here at Athi River Primary School now monitoring preparations for the conduct of KPSEA and KCPE across the country. Every school is doing what you have seen us doing here. It’s a time for the supervisors and invigilators to meet with the candidates so that they can explain to them their expectations,” Njeng’ere explained.

He said he was joined by both Athi River Sub County Directors of Education and TSC alongside representatives from the Ministry of Interior among other officials since the examinations’ admission will be conducted by a multi-agency.

“We want to assure our candidates that there is nobody who has access to any of those papers. Anybody lying to you that they can give you the papers before the day of exams, those are fraudsters,” Njeng’ere said.

Njeng’ere said there was nobody who had access to the examination papers and advised the candidates to do their work, revise and present themselves for the examinations as expected.

“KNEC is fair and it will make sure that you get the results that you all deserve,” he said.

He said the monitoring of examinations exercise was ongoing in all the centres nationwide.

“There is absolutely nothing to worry about, everything is in place. KNEC has put contingency measures in place in case there will be El – Nino rains or enhanced rains. We are prepared across the country to ensure there will be no disruption to the administration of the exams,” Njeng’ere said.

Njeng’ere said the government had been administering national examinations through a multi-agency including ministries of Education, Interior and ICT since 2016.

“The strategies we have put in place are adequate to ensure that even if there would be El – Nino or enhanced rains in any part of this country, we will make sure that the exams are delivered and conducted as scheduled,” he said.

He said the Ministry of Interior will ensure that not even a single child misses exams due to security issues.

Police on Friday arrested a Christian Religion Education teacher for allegedly selling 2023 national examinations in Kiambu.

In a statement, the Directorate of Criminal Investigations said the 23-year-old teacher nicknamed Mr Examiner had the 2023 national examination papers for both primary and secondary school.

Police said the suspect who teaches CRE at a school in Kiambu was arrested following meticulous investigations by detectives attached to the Kenya National Examinations Council.

“Mr Examiner had opened over 10 WhatsApp and Telegram accounts where he was hawking the fake examination papers at a partly Sh1,500 per paper and Sh2,000 for a complete examination paper with its marking scheme,” DCI said.

DCI say the suspect cautioned the over 900 parents and students in the group not to introduce other matters, as he was busy attending to those who were willing to buy.

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“Avoid many stories in my inbox I have many clients,” the religious education teacher said in one of his responses seen by detectives.

At the same time, DCI said Mr Examiner cautioned the group members to be very cautious of scammers since he was the only one with legit papers.

Police said that he had used a stolen identity card to register the SIM cards that he was using.

He had also opened a bank account and provided a till pay-bill number where the money would be sent.

“The suspect’s plans were however nipped in the bud when detectives infiltrated the groups posing as students who had not done their revision and wanted to reap where they hadn’t sown,” DCI said.

He was arrested in Gikambura village, Kiambu County, where several SIM cards believed to be used in the fraud were also found in his possession.

The Ministry of Education, the Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC) and the Directorate of Criminal Investigations have put up elaborate mechanisms aimed at upholding the integrity of administering the forthcoming KIPSEA and KCSE examination, to avoid cases of irregularities.

The government will spend Sh500 million to hire helicopters to transport examination papers to flood prone areas.

A document tabled before MPs from the Ministry of Education shows Kenya National Examination Council (Knec) requires a total of 15 helicopters to be able to transport the said examinations.

Education Cabinet Secretary Ezekiel Machogu said the Ministry of Environment and Forestry and the Kenya Meteorological Department predicted the El Nino related trends in various parts of the country could have an impact on field administration of examinations.

Reads the document: “Knec is engaging in a multi-agency coordinating team under the leadership of the office of Deputy President and the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) to assist in provision of the helicopters and other needs as they may arise.”

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Knec clustered the areas to be affected in to six categories including those that are flood hotspots, those that have heavy continuous rainfall, those that have flash floods, those affected by landslides, and those that have continuous rainfall above the long term average as well as those that will get occasional rainfall above the long term energy.

The areas that are flooding hotspots include Nyakach, Nyando, Lower areas of River Nzoia, Lower areas of River Sondu, Narok town, SuswNar, Tana River Delta and Mwatate while those that will experience flash floods include Lodwar, Lokichar, Nairobi, Naivasha, Nakuru and Mombasa.

Those that will experience heavy continuous rainfall include Lake Victoria Basin region, Kisii, Elgeyo Marakwet, Bungoma, Trans Nzoia, West Pokot, Vihiga, Laikipia , Nakuru and Narok Counties, those that will have landslides include West Pokot, Kericho, Elgeyo Marakwet, Mt Elgon, Narok, Nakuru, Baringo, Murang’a, Kitui and Kilungu in Makueni County.

The regions that will have continuous rainfall above the long term average include Rift Valley, Nairobi, Wajir and Mandera counties while those that will have occasional rainfall above the long term average include Turkana, Marsabit and Samburu.

The move came on the day Machogu assured MPs that adequate preparations have been put in place to achieve a credible examination process.

In a comprehensive brief to MPs delivered by Education Chairperson and Tinderet MP Julius Melly on the status of examination preparedness including registration of candidates, distribution of examination materials, storage of exams and marking of exams, Machogu said that regular reviews have been done to ensure that all the necessary pre-requisite measures are in place so as to guarantee effective conduct of the 2023 exams.

Said Machogu: “Necessary safeguards have been put in place to guarantee the efficiency and integrity of the examination and assessment process.”

He however asked the lawmakers to approve an additional Sh3.8 billion that the ministry had requested in the supplementary Estimates 1 Budget for the financial year 2023/24.

The money, he said, will be used to cater for the 2023/24 financial year pending bills that will be settled as first charge to enable teachers to be paid promptly and on time.

Further he said that the said funds will also be used to meet Knec’s projected deficit in the 2023/2024 financial budget required to meet the cost of rising, cost of administering examinations due to the increased candidature, the increased cost of fuel due to the double collection of the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examinations, increased fuel prices at the pump and review of rates of contracted professionals.

He said: “In this regard, the ministry requests the support of the house in securing the requisite budget, to ensure that the administration of national examinations is adequately funded.”

With regards to the dispatch of examination materials, Machogu told MPs that the distribution of the 2023 Kenya Primary School Education Assessment (KPSEA) and the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) materials was concluded on October 15 which also included the dispatch for the orals and oral materials for Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education.

On the number of officers who will be involved in the manning of examinations, Machogu said that Knec will involve about 374,579 field personnel.

Of the 374,579 field officers, 181,127 wil oversee KCPE exams, 99,525 will oversee KCSE, while 93877 will oversee KPSEA.
Those who will be hired include 30,848 supervisors, 192, 375 invigilators, 71, 760 centre managers, 294, 983 teachers, 57,931 security officers, 7,029 drivers, 2304 sub county directors of education and assistant county commissioners, 4608 security officers to man containers, 94 county police commanders and 1,728 clerks.

Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers(Kuppet), has supported the proposal to allow sick candidates to skip national exams until they fully recover.

The proposal was made by the National Assembly’s Education Committee chairman Julias Melly, who said that it would be unfair to burden an ailing student with exams.

Melly argued that hospitalised candidates can also be given supplementary exams after they have recovered.

”We need to come up with a better solution. You cannot give exams to a sick person in hospital, we are looking for solutions to cope with this situation,” Melly said when he visited Mitihani House in Nairobi.

”It’s  wrong to give exams to someone who has been sick for a long time: One who has been operated on and is still on medication.”

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According to Kuppet Kilifi branch chairman Opollo K’Opollo,” many students who become ill during exams always find it difficult to complete their exams when hospitalised.”

Opollo urged the Kenya National Examination Council board to put more effort into ensuring that the examinations reach candidates on time due to the anticipated El Nino rains in October.

He said that this year there shall be three national exams which will be administered—Kenya Primary School Assessment (KPSEA) for Grade 6 learners, Kenya Certificate of Primary Education(KCPE) and Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education(KCSE).

The KCSE exams are set to begin on October 23 and end on November 24 while the rehearsals are set to begin on October 19.

the Knec chief executive Dr David Njengere, has confirmed that heads of institutions will have to visit the container twice to collect exam papers.

Njengere maintained that adjustments will be made in the transportation of KCSE papers, particularly those scheduled for the afternoon session, to prevent any early exposure of examination materials.

Instead of schools receiving both morning and afternoon papers simultaneously, they will now collect each examination separately based on the scheduled session. For instance, papers designated for the morning session will be distributed in the morning, while afternoon papers will be securely stored until they are needed.

Njengere further explained, “The changes will involve the release and transportation of only one paper to the examination centre at a time.”

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This change will primarily focus on KCSE examinations, as they have been identified as the most susceptible to early exposure.

Furthermore, the government has increased the number of storage containers by 82, bringing the total to 576. Schools have also been remapped to facilitate easier access to the nearest storage container.

“Previously, schools collected examination papers from the sub-county headquarters, but some schools are located closer to nearby sub-county headquarters than the sub-county they are in, so they will be collecting the papers from the nearest containers,” explained Dr. Njengere.

Extensive changes are expected to impact the grading of the KCSE examination.

The Presidential Working Party for Education Reform recommended that the grading of KCSE should be based on two compulsory subjects in determining learners’ final scores.

These compulsory subjects will be one language (English or Kiswahili) and Mathematics. These two subjects will be considered alongside a candidate’s best five subjects in calculating the final score. Presently, Knec grades candidates based on five compulsory subjects and two other best-performing subjects. Knec uses a candidate’s scores in Mathematics, English and Kiswahili, and two sciences chosen from either Biology, Chemistry, and Physics.