Matiangi in trouble as Unionist Misori says KCSE papers were being marked after releasing results

The Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) and Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (Kuppet) have dismissed the Kenyan Certificate of Primary Education (KCSE) results terming them as disastrous.

“We cannot hurry to release results without a proper audit and celebrate mass failure of students. The exam results have been released when other papers are still being marked,” said the Kuppet Secretary General Akelo Misori according to reports on the Nation website.

Mr Misori also said that Education Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiangi rushed to release the results so that he could be seen as working.

CS Matiangi while releasing the results said that 90 per cent of the students did not qualify to join universities. Knut boss Wilson Sossion said that the reduction of students joining universities was an indicator of disaster. Sossion also questioned where the students who did not qualify to join university will go.

“There seems to be a deliberate effort to force more students to join tertiary institutions… reduction in the number of students joining universities is an indicator of disaster. Something is wrong, and that is why he (Matiang’i) does not want unions at all,” said Sossion.

"Transition to universities should be improving, it is genocide for our children,” he continued.

When Ureport reached out to the Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC) on 21 November at 10.00 am using the numbers provided on their website for comments, no one responded.