Burning of schools will not affect the National exams, says KNEC.

 Education CS Amina Mohamed address the press in Kisumu today.With her is KNEC Chairman Prof. George Magoha who has assured Kenyans that national exams will go on as planned-Photo By Dickson Odhiambo.

By Dickson Odhiambo

     

July 10, 2018.

Burning of schools will not affect the National exams, says KNEC.

THE burning of some schools witnessed so far in some parts of the country will not affect the class eight and form four final examinations for this year, the Kenya National Examination Council has said.

KNEC Chairman Prof George Magoha said this year’s KCPE and KCSE National examinations have already been set and very much secure.

Addressing the press in Kisumu today at Kisumu Girls High school after holding a meeting with education officials and the School’s BOM following the indefinite closure of the institution recently after the students went on strike, Magoha said the national examination will go on as planned and nothing wont interrupt it including the burning of schools by some students during the strike.

Magoha says the students should be very much disciplined and should embark on completing the syllabus  then start revising for the exams which is set to begin this October.

He says those students who are burning the schools thinking that they will get leakage in the national exams are doomed and should instead embark on thorough studying for the forthcoming exams.

“The National Exams for both class eight and form four for this year has already been set and it is highly secured thus will only be seen for the first time on the morning of doing the first paper.So those who think that burning schools will help them get exam papers should continue doing so but won’t get the papers at all.In fact they can burn the whole school but they won’t succeed,” Prof. Magoha says.

He threatens the students who are out to burn the schools to do so but will never get any exam papers for this year’s national exams.

“I want to tell those students who think that by burning the schools they will be able to get the exam papers for this year’s national exams that they are wasting their time and should instead read and revise for the forthcoming,” Magoha adds.

Cabinet Secretary in charge of Education Dr. Amina Mohamed says the Government has really embarked on thorough investigations so as to ascertain the real cause of strike and arsons in a number of schools across the country.

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