Where does a candidate get the guts to steal from a police officer and an invigilator? Or were they really desperate to Google answers to an exam question?
While you try wrap your head around the possibility, two KCSE candidates from Heights Secondary School in Thika were charged in Thika Law court for stealing phones which belonged to an invigilator and a police officer who were manning the exam.
The students allegedly stole the mobile phones from the office of the principal as he was engaging exam invigilators. They were reported to have stolen an Infinix Note 5 valued at Ksh.18,000 from Eunice Wanjiku, a KCSE invigilator and a Techno N65 valued at Ksh.10,000 from Hassan Gabow, a police officer respectively.
Cabinet Secretary for Education, Amina Mohamed has revealed that 21 people have in the first four days of KCSE examinations been arrested over malpractices countrywide. She also said that the phones of all supervisors and invigilators in the ongoing exams are being monitored by the government to curb the cheating menace that has been the narrative of the country’s national examinations for many years.
“The phones of examination centre managers and invigilators are being monitored to ensure they don’t tamper with the examinations. Anyone who tries to do so will be arrested and charged,” said Amina Mohamed.
“Anyone who tries to smuggle foreign materials into examination centres will be in for a rude shock. We have a fully installed surveillance system…no one can steal the examinations,” she added.