WAJIR- The National Assembly Education Committee chaired by Hon Julius Melly (Tinderet) has concluded its public hearings on allegations of cheating in the 2022 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examinations, by a final engagement with Wajir County residents.
Wajir is the 10th county the legislators visited in their fact-finding mission, as they sought to establish if indeed there were malpractices in last year’s national exams as has been widely claimed.
At the event held at Wajir ICT Hall, education stakeholders from the region led by the Wajir KNUT branch Executive Secretary Noor Bardad and his KUPPET counterpart Ali Mohamed told the legislators that there was no single case of examinational cheating recorded in the county.
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The unionists hailed the Hon Melly-led committee for pushing for the employment of more teachers in Wajir in other neighbouring counties of Garissa, Mandera and Lamu, but noted that there is still understaffing in the region.
Prof Mohamed Elmi, a former chancellor of Rongo University blamed the shortage of teachers for the dismal performance of the region in the national examinations.
“As a committee we raised the issue of acute shortage of tutors in North Eastern with the Teachers Service Commission. The region is the only one in the country where employment of teachers is done continuously. We will do more to fill the gaps,” reassured Hon Melly.
This Friday, committee members will converge in Nairobi at Parliament Buildings for the final day of public hearings, with residents from the city county and nearby regions expected to make their submissions.
Other select counties the team visited in their probe include Embu, Nakuru, Nyeri, Uasin Gishu, Machakos, Kakamega, Mombasa, Kisumu and Nyamira.
Via Parliarment Press.
