Students sit for their exams. Photo/ tuko.co.ke
Nyali Primary School parents have asked the court to direct Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC) to remark the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) examination after the council admitted that the school's results had anomalies.
Through their lawyer, Mamillan Jengo, the parents asked Judge Erick Ogollah to direct KNEC to remark last year’s examinations in the presence of teachers and parents.
The school had moved to court to seek directives allowing the remarking of the examinations following the release of results by Education PS Fred Matiang'i.
KNEC officials however defended the council saying the institution wrote a letter requesting them to audit results of only nine students, with KNEC counsel Jeffrey Obura adding that they had already rectified the results of two pupils.
Jengo, however, argued hat some pupils did not secure the schools of their choice following the anomalies in the results.
“We have pupils who are not continuing with their education because their marks were low, its not that they did not perform well, but because there was no transparency,” Jengo said, as quoted by Baraka FM.
A document seen by Baraka FM indicates that only two pupils from the school had issues with their results.
One of the students whose Mathematics and Science marks were missing scored 81 per cent and 62 per cent after the changes were made. A different pupil who had been awarded 32 per cent in Kiswahili got 77 per cent following the rectification.
Jengo also asked the court to ensure that the examination body makes the changes on the pupils’ certificate as soon as possible.
The court will rule on the matter on May 22, 2017.