A family in Kinangop, Nyandarua County can heave a sigh of relief after their son, a KCSE candidate at Alliance High School, who had gone missing two weeks to the national examinations, was found.
According to a report by Citizen TV, Elisaphanson Kinyanjui, was found in Ruiru minutes after the story was aired on prime time news. His father, Frederick Njoroge, revealed to the media that the student was found making a phone call to his cousin.
Kinyanjui was expected to sit this year's national examinations that began on Monday, March 14, but went missing two weeks ago.
His distraught family had put to task the school administration to explain how the student had gone missing while under their care.
Reports indicated that the school had sent a section of the students to buy stationery to be used for the KCSE examinations but Kinyanjui did not report back to school.
While speaking to the media, Kinyanjui's father blamed the school's administration for what he termed as negligence.
The Ministry of Education has consistently assured parents, students and all stakeholders that all was well, regarding preparation and administration of the national test.
Currently, 831,015 candidates, sitting the KCSE exams, will conclude on Friday, April 1. Those in Class 7 and Form 3 will then transition to the upper class in late April 2022 and sit their KCPE and KCSE exams in November and December 2022 respectively.
Education CS George Magoha has affirmed that his Ministry has been succeeded in taming exam cheating, nabbing a few students, police officers as well as exam officers who were involved.
The CS has also barred students from entering exam rooms with large amounts of money- noting that it would be confiscated and returned after the exam is over.
"I have one more request that while we're frisking our students before they go to classrooms, let us ensure that they don't hold lots of money in their pockets. We're able to track some students who had unnecessarily large amounts of money in their pockets for reasons best known to themselves.
"So, I'm going to instruct centre managers and exam officials to frisk the children thoroughly and any large amounts of money must be kept at the centre managers office until after the exam," he stated.
