The Principal at Shimo La Tewa High School where the 2016 KCSE results were released has revealed that he was not aware of the plan to announce the exam outcome from the school.
Mr Joseph Mwadime stated that he was informed of the decision on Thursday at 1 pm – about one-and-a-half hours to the release of the results.
The Principal divulged that on Wednesday night, Education Principal Secretary Belio Kipsang called and informed him that he would visit the school the following day.
“He did not disclose anything so I assumed that he was coming to see how we were preparing ourselves for next week’s opening of schools,” Mr Mwadime told the Nation.
The PS apparently asked him to prepare a room where he would meet secondary school principals for a briefing.
However, on Thursday morning, the instructions changed and he was asked to prepare the main hall for a bigger meeting.
According to Mr Mwadime, at 10 am Thursday principals were assembled at the school, waiting for Dr Kipsang.
Interestingly, an hour later a contingent of police officers arrived at the school and took their positions ahead of the results announcement.
Like in the previous instance, during the release of the 2016 KCPE results, officials of the Teachers’ unions said they were not aware of the plan to release the results on Thursday.
The Kenya National Union of Teachers’ Coast Executive member Dan Aloo lamented that the announcement was hurried and did not give union officials sufficient time to attend.
“I was called by my Secretary-General at around 1.25pm ordering me to go to Shimo-la-Tewa. We are glad that the results are out but we did not like it cause they caught us by surprise and our leaders were not even there,” said Mr Aloo.
“Neither Mr Wilson Sossion nor the chairman, Mudzo Nzili, was here but we appreciate the efforts of the leaders because the candidates have received their results.”
Meanwhile, before the results were released President Kenyatta received a comprehensive report on the 2016 KCSE Examination from the Ministry of Education and the Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) at State House, Mombasa.
