The Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) has moved to assure the country that no papers for the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) exams have been leaked.
According to a Saturday statement issued by KNEC chairman George Magoha, the council is aware of reports of individuals fleecing the public at the pretense of selling purportedly ‘genuine’ KCPE examination papers scheduled to begin on Tuesday.
“These papers have been sent to the council which has scrutinized them and found that all of them are fake. The papers being sold do not have the slightest likeness to what we have set and printed,” said Magoha.
The chairman further urged Kenyans to stop falling prey to the fleecing game at the hands of unscrupulous people and added that that investigations have been started to arrest and bring to book those involved in the saga.
“We wish to warn that those who will buy the fake papers can only distract their children from the right preparations they have made for the examinations. This criminal act can only succeed to cause panic among candidates,” Magoha said.
This comes only days after the examination body announced new guidelines aimed at reducing the loopholes previously used in the cheating of national exams.