A primary school teacher in Mandera East was arrested over an exam malpractice on Tuesday.
Police are probing how three candidates sitting for the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education exam were found in possession of mobile phones.
Mandera county criminal investigations officer Benedict Kigen said the three phones were confiscated by a supervisor at Tawakal Primary School on the outskirts of Mandera town.
“We are interrogating a centre manager to know how these candidates ended up with mobile phones in the examination room,” he said.
Kigen said the police are looking for another centre manager suspected to be behind the examination leakage in Mandera East.
This was after police established whatever was shared in the phones came from another school in the area.
Police said an officer was also injured at Tawakal Primary School after unknown persons pelted stones at the school.
Police suspect he was attacked by people who wanted to sneak in mobile phones but were being blocked by their vigilance.
The three candidates were allowed to continue with their examination as investigations go on.
This was after it emerged whatever they had, had no direct impact on the examination, police and exam officials said.
Officials are on alert to avert any form of exam leakage in the ongoing exercise in the country.
Multi agency teams are monitoring the exercise.
