Environment Cabinet Secretary Keriako Tobiko has said the KCPE examinations dispatch was very successful in Athi River Sub-County.
Tobiko lauded the area deputy county commissioner David Juma for his exemplary coordination of the exercise.
“I am impressed with the entire team. I arrived here by 5.30am and found the deputy county commissioner, county director of education, Athi River OCPD, KNEC officials, centre managers, and security personnel all waiting. I thought I could wait for them,” Tobiko said.
He addressed the press shortly after supervising the distribution of examinations to 103 centres in Athi River Sub County, Machakos County on Tuesday.
Tobiko arrived at Athi River deputy county commissioner David Juma’s office at 5.30am where he officially opened the KNEC’s examinations’ container at exactly 6.00am.
He said they all witnessed the opening of two sealed padlocks to the container, keys to each padlock he said was under the custody of two different officials.
“The examinations have kicked off well in my own assessment, nothing should worry anyone,” he added.
Tobiko said the same should be replicated in all parts of the country.
He visited 184 KCPE candidates sitting the examinations at St. Paul’s primary school in Athi River Sub County.
Tobiko later visited other schools in Machakos Town and Kathiani sub-counties before he went to Makueni County.
The CS said he had been assigned to coordinate and supervise exams in Machakos and Makueni counties.
Machakos county commissioner Abdullahi Galgalo said 16,958 boys and 17,281 girls are sitting for KCPE in the county this year while 12,069 boys and 12,329 girls are sitting for KCSE in 1,015 centres for KCPE.
There are 451 KCSE examination centres and 16 technical centres, each centre is manned by two police officers.
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