Chairman of the Kenya National Examinations Council no-nonsense Prof. George A.O Magoha has been nomitated by President Uhuru Kenyatta to be the cabinet secretary of Education after Amina Mohammed was moved to the ministry of Sports and Culture.
Magoha Academic Administrator and Professor of Surgery and a Consultant Urologist at the University of Nairobi’s College of Health Sciences.
He is best known for his time as the Vice Chancellor of the University of Nairobi from 2005–2015 where he is credited to have transformed the institution from student hooliganism to a leading institution of higher learning in Kenya and beyond.
His record as a no nonsense education administrator saw him appointed by President Uhuru Kenyatta as the Chairman of the Kenya National Examination Council in 2016.
His immediate task was to reform the council to arrest the widespread academic dishonesty and corruption in the administration of national examinations.
He is credited to have dismantled cartels that had propagated exam cheating for years and restored credibility of exams in Kenya.
This follows the firing of underperfoming CS Rashid Echesa.
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