State adds more containers in bid to check exams cheating

Education principal secretary Belio Kipsang (centre) address the press on national exam preparedness at Isiolo county commissioner's office. [Bruno Mutunga, Standard]

The State will invest in more containers in a bid to check exam cheating.

The Education ministry will increase the containers for the storage of examination papers by more than 50 per cent.

Education Principal Secretary Belio Kipsang said the ministry would, with the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) and the Interior ministry, ensure there was no cheating this year.

Dr Kipsang, who spoke in Isiolo during inspection of county's preparations for the exams, said the county would get four more containers. Last year the county had three.

Among the counties that will get more containers are Marsabit, Garissa, Laikipia, Meru, Samburu, Baringo, West Pokot and Turkana.

"Examination leakages or cheating occurs more from the storage of the material centres vis-à-vis distance of transportation and this is why we have increased the number of containers in remote areas. The policy had been one container per sub-county but we have increased this in all vast counties," Kipsang said.

"Adequate measures are in place to safeguard the examination’s integrity," he added. He was accompanied by Isiolo Senator Fatuma Dullo and the county TSC director, Yussuf Abdullahi.