154 candidates sit for KCPE from prison

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By Standard Team

Some 154 prisoners are sitting the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education examinations this year.

At Shimo La Tewa, there are 41 inmates sitting the exams.

The prison’s commander Margaret Chuma said there are 37 men and four women writing the papers at the maximum prison. Sixty-two inmates at the Naivasha Maximum Prison are among the candidates.

Officer in-charge of Kitale Prison Ahmed Rashid has a word with 34 inmates sitting KCPE exams at the institution. [PHOTO: OSINDE OBARE/STANDARD]

The prison had registered 69 inmates but only 62 turned up. Prison authorities, however, expressed fears this could be the last batch of candidates to sit the national exams due to new rules by the Kenya National Examination Council.

Officer in charge Patrick Mwenda said the directive that candidates produce birth certificates before registration could stall learning in prisons.

In Kitale, 34 prisoners at three prisons are also sitting the exams.

And in Kodiaga, 17 prisoners are sitting the exam and include ten male and seven female. In Pokot County, reformed warriors are among hundreds of candidates writing the exams while at Garissa Municipality, a councillor, 50, is sitting the exams.

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