Yesterday, Education Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang'i carried out a purge at the Kenya National Examinations Council (Knec) aimed at restoring credibility to the country's national examinations.
Last year's Kenya Certificate of Secondary Examination was marred by claims of widespread leakage. Consequently, the results of at least 5,000 students who sat that exam were cancelled, double the number in 2014. When copies of exam papers were circulated on social media, the least the country expected from Knec was mass resignation.