Kisii County Director of Education, Richard Chepkawai has expressed confidence that the county is adequately prepared for the 2015 Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) examinations.
Chepkawai assured parents that the candidates and other education stakeholders have received adequate facilitation to ensure the examinations that begin on Tuesday run smoothly.
He said the Kenya National Examinations Council (Knec) has dispatched the KCPE papers to the county and are under a 24-hour guard by police officers in the designated police stations awaiting official distribution to examination centres across the county.
Speaking to this writer on Monday in his office, Chepkawai said all arrangements for the KCPE examinations in the County had been finalised according to the KNEC examinations schedule.
"All the nine sub-county directors have put in place all the logistics and examination management mechanisms are in place awaiting the examination day.
In case there are transportation challenges due to heavy rains, we have made special arrangements to address the challenges," he assured.
Chepkawai disclosed that this year the county will present 26,147 KCPE candidates, up from last year's 24,955, spread across 903 primary schools serving as KNEC's registered examination centres in the county.