Keep security and State officials off exam venues

For several years now, sanity has been restored in our national examinations at primary and secondary school levels, thanks to the current and previous leaderships at the Ministry of Education. However, more still needs to be done to give credence to the whole exam process. There are many loose ends that should be tied to make us give the viva cry.

The truth is that we all need to take a moment of introspection to support efforts by the Government to sanitise our exams. We had sunk to the lowest of dark depths in the pre-Matiang’i days. As parents, teachers and examination managers, we were all guilty of examination malfeasance. Don’t get your dander up, you were culpable either directly or indirectly. Many parents colluded with teachers to buy examination papers to give their children an advantage, some officers entrusted with taking custody of the examinations sold the papers to the highest bidder. Today, the effect of those actions are wreaking havoc on society.