Police in Siaya have arrested 3 KCSE candidates who were caught on camera insulting Education CS Amina Mohammed and her Interior counterpart Fred Matiang’i.
In the video, the students of Ambira High School daringly insulted the two Cabinet Secretaries for their efforts in ensuring the credibility of the exams.
They also bragged of cheating in this year’s national examinations.
The students who had done their last Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) exam on Wednesday were seen burning their books in what they called an “academic fire.”
“Those juveniles as you have described them have become persons of interest not because of what they said insulting prominent persons but their suspected involvement in examination cheating,” Inspector General of Police Joseph Boinnet remarked.
Ambira High School Principal Thomas Odhiambo gave the police names of eight students who were positively identified in the recording.
They are Opiyo Brantley Owino, Hongo Steven, Barry Oduor Odhiambo and Odhiambo Ralph Lauren.
Others are Omondi Joshua Otieno, Edwin Omondi, Clinton Oduor Onyango and Lavin Jude Ombago.
Three are in police custody while five are still at large.
The school chaplain Alex Ogeda blamed the incident on a few students who had earlier been suspended over indiscipline cases before the exam began.
