An ambulance used to ferry Lokichogio Mixed Secondary School students to hospital when they were attacked by gunmen [Photo/www.standardmedia.co.ke]
Seventy six candidates of South Sudanese origin failed to write the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examination in Turkana County on Monday due to insecurity fears.
Turkana County education director Pius Ong'oma has said the students feared for their safety judging the state of affairs by the last month incident in which five students and a security guard were killed at Lokichogio Mixed Secondary School.
"There is increased insecurity along the borders and it has affected candidates to an extent that it has forced candidates not to cross the borders. We communicated on phone and made them aware of exams but they did not turn up," Mr. Ong'oma said.
Recently, a student named Abraham Lojore from South Sudan led an attack at the school over a disagreement with some of his colleagues leading to his being suspended from school.
Lojore was however lynched by a mob that forcefully took him from Kakuma police station and later burnt him to death.
There were three other students that were said to have taken part in the attack at the school and some female students were raped.