A centre manager and a supervisor of KCSE exams at a secondary school in Nandi county have been arrested over allegations of aiding exam malpractices.
The arrest happened after police officers in the county received an intelligence report regarding allegations of exam malpractices at the school based in Nandi South.
The intelligence showed that the examination material CRE paper 1 of a certain candidate in that school had been photographed and the images were circulating on social media.
The security team proceeded to the school where it was confirmed that the paper circulating was of a student from that school.
The centre manager, the supervisor and the two invigilators in charge were taken into custody to assist in the investigations.
Police say the four failed to satisfactorily explain how the material ended up on social media.
Police recorded statements from the four including the candidate.
They will be arraigned to face relevant charges once the investigations are complete.
In Baringo County, a police officer attached to St. Mary’s secondary school to protect the examination exercise reported an allegation of exam malpractice.
The officer said he was called by an invigilator who informed him that there was a student who was behaving suspiciously within the exam room.
The police officer got into the exam room and spotted the male candidate with a mobile phone make Nokia C200 between his thighs.
The candidate was requested to surrender the phone to the police officer which he refused prompting the officer to use force to confiscate the phone.
The phone contained questions and answers to the paper being done.
He was arrested and booked at Salawa police station for further police action.
At Ihya High School in Garissa County, police recovered a mobile phone from a candidate during the Islamic Religious Education (IRE) paper one.
The invigilator handed over the phone to the Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC) officer who subsequently handed it over to security agencies.
Later in the afternoon during the biology examination, acting on the information from the KNEC officer, DCIO Dadaab stormed Gedi secondary school where they recovered a mobile phone from a candidate which has been confiscated.