Education Principal Secretary Belio Kipsang on Thursday announced that strict measures would be taken against any KCPE and KCSE examination centres where cases of cheating are busted.
The PS announced that any centre incriminated for cheating will be immediately closed down and treated as a crime scene.
Dr Kipsang explained that students from the flagged centres will not be allowed to continue with the exams after a case of cheating is discovered.
He added that they would relieve the invigilators and the candidates from the process as it would be pointless to have the students continue when their results would be automatically cancelled.
"The centre will no longer be an examination centre incase cheating is detected but a scene of crime and police will have to handle the situation," he announced.
The measure will also apply to exam centres where cases of earlier exposure to exam materials are noted.
According to the PS, earlier exposure serves to benefit all the candidates at the centre, therefore, they have to pay the consequences collectively.
The PS spoke as he inspected an exams container at the Lang'ata sub-county headquarters accompanied by Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) chairman Prof. George Magoha and acting chief executive Dr Mercy Karogo.
The PS conveyed that the Ministry is aware of a scheme where parents are collecting funds to obtain exam leakage.
He, however, alerted the parents that any papers they manage to obtain will be fakes. He urged the parents and principals of schools to distance themselves from such arrangements.
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