The government should set a side a chopper purposely for distributing examination materials and managing the entire national examination exercise in Mavoko sub county once El Nino rains begin.
The area Mavoko director of education Mr Joseph Kiema said most of the schools in the region were unreachable whenever there were heavy rains due to flooding and impassible roads.
"As a sub county, we have not yet experienced any problems as far as transportation of staff and distribution of examination materials in schools within Mavako is concerned, there have been reported cases of delayed transportation because of lazy officers who report to picking points late," said Kiema.
Kiema who addressed the press at his office in Athi River town on Wednesday however noted that the usage of choppers to manage KCSE and KCPE examinations in the area was not a new idea.
He said several schools in the region, both primary and secondary are located either in flood prone areas or where there are poor terrains and road networks thereby making road transport difficult during harsh weather conditions, especially rainy seasons.
Kiema said his office had collapsed an examination distribution centre at the sub county thereby remaining with only a single centre as a precaution to enhance security of examination papers during the ongoing KCSE examinations.
"We have been having two examination materials distribution centres in Mavoko, one at Athi River police station and another at Joska police station.
"We have collapsed the Joska station and remained only with the other at the Athi River in a bid to enhance security of the papers," he said.
He added that the collapse followed a circular from the Kenya National Examinations Council (Knec) issued last Friday to all counties across to get rid of some of the centres and remain with central distribution centres in each sub county due to increased reports of exam leakage in the ongoing KCSE exams.
He said the reduction of the centres had increased workload on examination exercise handling given that the schools were far apart.
Kiema's call on the government to set aside a chopper for the sub county came only a day after a heavy downpour that lasted more than six hours in Athi River town and its environments on Tuesday, leading to a four hour black out in the town and its neighboring Mlolongo and Kitengela towns.