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Exams Crisis Looms
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- Published on Monday, 09 July 2007 00:39
Over 500 Kenya KCSE invigilators in Kisii and Gucha districts continued to boycott the briefings up to yesterday while local Knut officials said their teachers will not oversee or mark the examination papers.
In Kisii however, the DEO (one) Tingo Nyamatiko and education officials conducted a successful briefing for over 100 retired teachers, civil servants and unemployed teaching graduands from the Getembe zone at the district headquarters.But the Kisii Knut branch executive secretary David Mokamba told their teachers to keep away from the exams. The briefing in Gucha led by the DEO Charles Odongo went on under tight security at Ogembo Police Station compound amidst fears of possible disruption by the striking teachers.
In Isiolo District, unemployed teacher graduates rejected taking teaching and supervision of exams positions.Speaking at the local Knut branch offices, the more than 200 graduates said they rejected the offer because TSC wants to misuse them.The DEO, Mr David Kitunguu, said, however, that his office had recruited about 70 personnel to invigilate exams. Those recruited include civil servants, unemployed teacher graduates, Form Four and Standard Eight leavers.
And an attempt by teachers to disrupt the briefing session in Nyamira District was repulsed by police.
The civil servants and newly-recruited teachers had converged at Kebirigo High School when the alleged teachers stormed the gates.Nyamira DEO Sylvester Shiundu said exams will go on as planned. He advised the teachers to keep off exam centres if they are not ready to call off the strike.
Nyamira DC Jamlek Baruga said security will be provided when the exams commence.Elsewhere, in Taveta sub-district parents with children who are candidates in this year's national examinations, have called for the postponement of the exercise.
They claimed the students have been tortured mentally and psychologically by the strike and should be given time to readjust.
In a signed statement, the parents said their children were not ready for the exams as they had not received proper preparations. "The playing field is not level as only private schools have been conducting normal teaching while public schools have been paralysed by the teachers' strike," they said.
