A woman who sat for the 2015 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) got her results while those of her two children were cancelled.
Esther Wanjiku Omari took the examinations alongside her two children Rahimtula Kaka and Miriam Wamuhu at Temple Road Secondary School in Nyeri, as a way of motivating them by posing as their competitor.
Unfortunately, the two siblings were not graded due to allegations of exam irregularities.
“I registered to show my kids that despite of my advanced age we could still compete with each other,” she told NTV.
Both Kaka and Wamuhu were awarded grade Y in Mathematics hence could not obtain their aggregate results while their mother scored a D+ in the exams.
According to the school's Deputy Principal David Otuonwa, the students' results were nullified unfairly as the only reason given by the Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC), was that they had foreign writings on their Mathematical tables.
“When the invigilators presented the mathematics tables of the two to the headteacher, he only found the names of the candidates written on them,” explained Otuonwa.
Otuonwa added that the names on the mathematical tables could not warrant the cancellation of the students' results.
