We Are Ready For The Exams, New Kiambu County Commissioner Says.
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| Kiambu Commissioner Wilson Wanyanga addressing the press as the County Director of Education Harrison Muriuki looks on. |
In a meeting that was attended by the County Director of Education
(CDE), Harrison Muriuki, his
deputies, county and sub-county examination officers, senior county police
officers and Administration Police commanders, Officials of Kenya National
Union of Teachers (KNUT), Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET)
and representatives of primary and secondary school heads associations, Wanyanga
said even though Kiambu has not had incidences of exam cheating, they were not
taking any chances that could jeopardise the smooth running of the exercise.
“Today is my third day in the county and this being my
second official function, am very pleased to have gotten the opportunity to
meet all the relevant officials who will be spearheading the whole exercise of
the exams. As you are aware, the entire month of November will be exam time and
we have therefore come here to make arrangements that will ensure that we
experience any challenges within the exam centres. We have agreed as a county
that we will ensure that our exams will be flawless as we do not want to jeopardise
the integrity of this very important exercise,” said the Commissioner.
He added that after this briefing, those officers would go
to their stations to sensitise their juniors on all what they were expected to
do to ensure that everything went on smoothly.
The CDE Mr. Muriuki said that the education sector was proud
of the new commissioner’s approach to issues and all the signs were that
everything will be well.
“Just like last year whereby we had no cheating within
Kiambu, apart from some isolated incidences involving only three schools in
KCSE where there were cases of mobile phones that affected only 10 students,
the commissioner has promised to ensure that the county will be incident-free.
We are very ready for the exams and have no concerns whatsoever,” said the CDE.
On matters security, Wanyanga said that that his office had
noted that illicit brews had started to creep back and he had personally
ordered several crackdowns that had helped to seize a big consignment of these
brews and managed to arrested several culprits some of whom have already been
arraigned in court.
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