Education Cabinet Secretary Ezekiel Machogu will this morning appear before a parliamentary committee probing allegations of cheating during the 2022 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education exam.
Machogu will appear before National Assembly’s Education Committee alongside other officials from the ministry.
“The venue of the meeting is Pride Inn Hotel, Mombasa,” a press invite indicated.
Machogu has maintained the KCSE 2022 administration was clean and that the Ministry of Education devised various mechanisms to curb cheating.
However, there have been concerns across the country that KCSE examinations have been commercialised.
In March, Committee on Education Chairperson Julius Melly said their engagements with the public, stakeholders, experts, parents, teachers, examiners and Kenyans, in general, had revealed that there were malpractices in the KCSE examinations of 2022.
In its preliminary findings, the committee accused the Kenya National Examination Council of actively facilitating examination leaks, including in last year’s examination.
The House team found that some schools pay as much as Sh1 million to get exam leakages to sustain their reputation as academic giants in the country.
The committee also attributed cases of cheating to the pressure exerted on head teachers, by their employer, the Teachers Service Commission, to deliver good results.
During its sittings, the MPs have sought to determine whether there were incidences of exam cheating or other malpractices, how the cases were orchestrated, who the players were, and who bears the ultimate responsibility.
They will also carry out a comprehensive audit of KNEC’s Examination Management Systems including exam setting, printing, transportation, storage, and marking.
