After sitting for our KCSE exams in 2012, over 100 students of Uhuru High School are still frustrated after the school management continues to delay the release of our KCSE certificates.
It is now four years since the school management made a promise to us that they will present us with the certificates.
The results were out in February 2013 and everyone who sat for the national exams in 2012 got their result slips. One year later, which is in 2014, after school management made a promise to release our KCSE certificates, we went to school as promised only to be told to that we will have to wait a bit longer.
That whole year we did not receive any update from the school about the whereabouts of our KCSE certificates.
Come 2015, with no positive feedback forthcoming over the delay in the release of our KCSE certificates, the school claimed that they have contacted KNEC and were told that the photos on our certificates were blurred and needed to be corrected before being released to us.
Our effort to meet with the school management proved futile as they kept dodging us. Here are some questions as posed to them that are still begging for answers:
What happened to our passports that were taken during our registration in 2012? And if the passports had an issue, why was it never raised during the verification of our data?
What happened to the student database?
Why is it that the school is taking too long to handle the matter given that it has been four years? And now what’s our fate as students?
Early this year, due to the pressure mounting on the school, the management decided to take passport photos of hardly a quarter of the students who had queries.
This has just proved to be one of those tactics the school was using to give us false hope. The assured two months period of communication elapsed with now word from the management. This depicts the lack of commitment and sincerity by the management.
Those who were not able to retake their passports photos were told that they will now have to pay KES.5000 to KNEC through the school so that they can be able to get certificates, which leave the question: why do we have to pay that amount in the first place?
What’s that money for? Will that money place photos on our certificates?
January this year 2016, we wrote to the County Director of Education to intervene on the matter.
We are now worried that our KCSE certificates may never come and this causes a lot of distress. We have missed several job opportunities and quite a good number have missed scholarships due to lack of these certificates.
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We urge Uhuru High School and the state government to look into our issue.
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