Garissa branch KNUT secretary Abdirizak has called upon the national examinations council to use helicopters during the transportation of examination papers from the county headquarters to various centers without the application of secure storage containers.
According to the KNUT official, the authority has ignored calls from education stakeholders in the region to provide them with adequate containers that can make the transportation of exams safer.
Addressing the members of the press in Garissa Town, Hussein said the authority has not done much to ensure the safety of the examination.
The secretary argued that moving learners from their institutions of learning to centres that possess containers was going to inconvenience them in different ways, hence they should consider other viable options presented to them.
“The ministry’s formula is too taxing, expensive and tiring. Students will be forced to travel for kilometres to unfamiliar environments. This will hurt their scores,” Hussein said, as quoted by The Star.
He also said that teachers were not ready to escort the papers because the amount they are paid is too little for them to take risk.
“What Knut pays invigilators and a supervisor is not worth risking one’s life for,” Hussein said.
He added: “We request authorities to give this attention it deserves since parents and students are complaining. If something is not done, the results will not be as good as we had expected, and we will blame Knec and the Education ministry.”