The Cabinet Secretary for Education, Ambassador Amina Mohamed has challenged the Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) to sustain the credibility and integrity of the administration of examinations it had established in the last two years.
At the same time she also promised to do what it takes to ensure the integrity of national examination was kept and urged the staff to sustain the momentum that they had generated two years ago.
The CS was speaking to the staff of the KNEC at Mitihani House in Nairobi during a familiarization tour of the examinations body.
She was flanked by the Chief Administrative Officer, Mr. Simon Kachapin, Principal Secretary for Early Learning and Basic Education, Dr. Belio Kipsang, Chairman of KNEC Council, Prof. George Magoha, Chief Executive Officer of the Teachers Service Commission, Mrs. Nancy Macharia, and Acting Chief Executive of KNEC, Mrs. Mercy Kerogo.
Amb Mohamed said the staff who had helped reverse examinations cheating will be remembered for having done away with an illegality.
“Theft is theft. But the worst kind of theft is done to those who are vulnerable; children, special needs children, and the sick,” Amb. Mohamed said.
She said educators must ensure that the students they produced at whatever level of education are of the highest calibre.