Nyamira County Commissioner Erastus Mbui has confirmed that there would be no armed security personnel when learners will be undertaking their KPSEA and KJSEA education assessment.
Commissioner Mbui clarified this on Monday morning while overseeing dispatch of assessment materials for primary and Junior secondary school learners.
He said that the centre managers would be administering an assessment which seeks to ascertain the learners’ competence level in various subjects they have been learning in school and therefore no need to deploy armed personnel in those centres.
“Security personnel are only required when we are administering examinations but assessment is a continuous exercise which will enable learners to select the pathways which they are competent and have interest in to be placed in appropriate senior secondary schools in the country,” Mbui said.
“Nyamira County will administer five categories of examination and assessment this year some of which comprise of practical projects which were started as early as January this year.
“The county registered a total of 21,611 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) candidates in 195 centres. We enrolled 17,209 leaners for Kenya Junior Secondary Education Assessment (KJSEA) in 455 centres, a total of 17,786 candidates for Kenya Primary school education Assessment (KIPSEA) 510 centres, 26 candidates for Kenya Intermediate Level Educational Assessment (KILEA) in 11 centres, 9 candidates for Kenya Pre-Vocational Level Education Assessment (KPLEA) in 1 centre,” the County Commissioner listed.
He stated that they would be closely monitoring the assessment exercise to ensure it is credible and any other challenge encountered would be handled immediately so that no hitch hinders or halts this very important exercise.
While addressing centre managers, Mbui emphasized on the importance of time management when picking and dropping the examination and assessment materials for learners, adhering to all the regulations by KNEC to ensure the exercise is credible and no irregularity is reported.
“The monitoring of this exercise will deploy a multi-agency approach where all the security team, education officers, Teachers Service Commission (TSC) and other relevant stakeholders will be brought on board to execute this assignment with precision. Let us do what we can honourably and be proud of after the results are finally out,” the CC appealed.
He wished all the candidates the best in this year’s examination and assured them not to be worried or panic because their relentless hard work for the time they have been in school would pay off since they were only proofing that they grasped concepts learnt in class through an examination or assessment.
by Deborah Bochere
