President Uhuru Kenyatta has stated that Education Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang'i did a good job in the administration of the 2016 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) exam.
Amid calls by some Education stakeholders for the remarking of the 2016 KCSE exam, the President, through State House Spokesman Manoah Esipisu, maintained that Dr Matiang'i delivered "credible and integrity filled results".
“The Minister has done his job. That job entailed delivering credible and integrity filled results and he has. There are always all types of questions after this type of thing and I am quite sure that the minister will consider what he needs to do in the fullness of time,” Esipisu said.
The President's announcement comes after the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) on Friday called for the results of the 574,125 candidates, who sat for the 2016 exams, to be cancelled.
Through KNUT Secretary-General Wilson Sossion, the teachers claimed that after thorough investigations, they had discovered that due process was not followed in marking and releasing of the 2016 results.
“We were shocked at the curve. It is not a normal curve. So we launched investigations as a union and we have consulted widely, even inside government, and the narrative is the same, that these results are not a true reflection of the candidates’ performance,” Mr Sossion affirmed.
In the letter addressed to the Office of the President and Speakers of both National Assembly and Senate, KNUT is demanding the results to be moderated appropriately considering the abnormalities they discovered.
“We hereby, honestly and in the spirit of patriotism to the country demand immediate recall of KCSE results and be taken through a due process of moderation and grading appropriately by chief examiners at the subject level,” part of the letter read.
In last year's KCSE results, only 88,929 candidates scored C+ and above.
