A head teacher gives a Hilarious Reason after he is Busted sitting a student’s exam

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We all know that cases of exam cheating are very rampant in Africa. Especially after some misguided people peddled the notion that University education is the key to immeasurable riches.

In Kenya, most  cases of cheating during KCSE and KCPE exams are either a collaboration between teachers and National Examination Council officers who leak the questions to the students at a very huge fee. Or, some schools just decide to bribe NEC officers in order to be favored during marking. Anyway, that was before the Matiang’i era.

The no nonsense Kisii man cracked down on examination cartels in the Ministry of Education and reduced cheating by more than 50%. Though we will have to wait until the end of the year to know if his rapid changes were long lasting.

But if you thought Kenya is the only country affected by exam cheating, then you have never been wrong like you’re now. Our neighbors Burundi have just taken the vice to another level. The kind of cheating that happens here makes us amateurs. Huku ni Princi anakufanyia exam. In Kenya, a Principal is the most learned man in the school, so akikufanyia paper si utapata kila kitu ngazi?

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A head teacher in Burundi has been arrested for trying to disguise himself as a student and sit a national exam on another person’s behalf.

Police officers burst into the exam hall where Benjamin Manirambona took the test after a tip-off.

Little did he know that plain-clothes officers had staked out the school overnight, waiting to catch him.With nowhere to run, the head of Butere Technical College admitted to the deception on the spot.

Mr Manirambona explained he was taking the electronics exam on behalf of a soldier who is serving in Somalia at part of a Burundian peacekeeping force. He said the student wanted the grades to qualify for university.

The head teacher said the soldier promised him a payment on his return to Burundi.”Everything you’re saying is a lie, so we’re taking you away,” said Burundi’s Education Minister Janvière Ndirahisha, who arrived at the scene in the capital, Bujumbura, with uniformed officers.

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“We’re going to investigate because from what we hear it’s not the first time [you’ve done this],” she told Mr Manirambona.

The minister was accompanied by reporters to witness the arrest. He was arrested alongside four other students also suspected of cheating – one of them is accused of putting the soldier and headmaster in touch.

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Mr Manirambona is now being held in police custody.

In Burundi, students taking important public exams are sent to sit them in other schools.

This explains why Mr Manirambona was not recognised by other people in the exam hall.

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