All Candidates to remove face masks for confirmation to avoid impersonation in exams

Nyanza Regional Commissioner Magu Mutindika{M} address the press in Kisumu today on the preparations towards the forthcoming National examination. He says all the candidates must be confirmed to avoid impersonation as a form of cheating in the exams-Photo By Dickson Odhiambo

By Dickson Odhiambo

  March 10, 2021

All Candidates to remove face masks for confirmation to avoid impersonation in exams

ALL Candidates sitting the year 2020 National Examinations in Nyanza region will duly be confirmed before entering examination rooms to undertake exams to avoid cases of cheating through impersonation.

Nyanza Regional Commissioner Magu Mutindika says due to the Ministry of Health regulation on Covid-19 where wearing face masks is mandatory to all, both class eight and form four candidates will be required to remove their face masks during frisking before entering the examination rooms to check whether they are genuine then will put the face masks on.

Mutindika says the center managers and those taking part in the invigilation of the National Exams must certify and confirm that indeed only genuine candidates sit for the exams.

To avoid exams cheating through impersonation, we must certify and confirm that indeed genuine candidates sit for exams. This must be thoroughly done before candidates are allowed into the examination rooms,” Mutindika says.

The Nyanza Regional Commissioner at the same time says police officers are not supposed to carry exams Papers but only those who have been assigned by the Kenya National Examination Council to do so to and from the containers where the papers are story

He maintains that police officers’ duty is to provide security to the exams materials throughout the examination period.

“If those assigned by KNEC known as Center managers are not there to carry the exam papers, then the police officers are not supposed to carry them to and from the centers to the Containers where they are kept temporarily,” he adds.

The regional commissioner directed all the Deputy County Commissioners and the Sub-County Directors of Education within the region to secure containers’ keys properly where exams are stored.

"You must ensure that containers where exams are stored are very much safe in your hands" Mutindika says.

He says all the candidates should get what they deserve, urges them to work hard without any form of cheating during the forthcoming exams.

He says they will be moving within the entire region with the Nyanza regional Director of Education to monitor the way exams will be conducted. 

Mutindika at the same warned parents not to engage in buying fake exams papers from unscrupulous people telling  them that such are genuine exams papers.

Nyanza Regional Director of Education Willie Machocho says  the region is presenting 177,486 Primary schools candidates doing KCPE Exams 2020 in 4,728 centers.

he says the Form four candidates i the entire region is 132,091 KCSE candidates in 1,702 centers.

Machocho says there are 78 containers for storing exams within the entire region.

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