The government has busted the individuals alleged to be part of the cartel responsible for leaking KCSE material.
In the crackdown that began at the onset of the exam, police uncovered an organised crime syndicate led by Vincent Meroka Nyasani, who is at the centre of the investigations.
Investigations reveal that Nyasani established an exam leaking racket five years ago with the help of Patrick Irungu, who is claimed to have a wide network of parents, students, and teachers.
Their accomplices, Shabaan Omar, Dick Obure Birario, Marvin Christopher Oduor Awiti, and Frederick Simba Mageka are alleged to have penetrated government systems.
The probe indicates that Nyasani built his own network and managed to recruit Awiti to distribute papers on his behalf with Mageka tasked to run his errands.
“They resorted to recruiting rogue teachers who would open packets before time and share the pictures via WhatsApp where they were all members of the group,” reads the police report.
Nyasani was first arrested in 2016 and has a pending case before Kiambu Law Courts with Irungu acting as his link with the parents and teachers.
Before his arrest, Nyasani is said to have attempted to flush sim cards in the toilet as well as destroy his phones.
However, the phones were not completely damaged thus the police were able to retrieve incriminating data. Until 2015, Irungu was the deputy headteacher at Wargadud Mixed Secondary School in Mandera county.
The racket was uncovered by a multiagency operation set up by President Uhuru Kenyatta, comprising of regular police, the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) officials from the National Intelligence Service and the Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC).
