Newspapers on Thursday, January 9, reported on a series of topics, the delay in the release of the results of the Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) 2024 has dominated all the pages.
Kenya Newspaper Review, January 9: Government Explains Delay in Release of KCSE 2024 Results
Elsewhere, the failure of the Inspector General of Police Douglas Kanja and the Director of Criminal Investigation (DCI) Mohamed Amin was also written in the paper.
1. People Daily
People Daily noted that the delay in KCSE 2024 results could be caused by the new system where each exam paper was personalized for each candidate, with their name, index number, and school printed in advance.
It is suspected that the system caused confusion and confusion during marking and totaling, resulting in the need to standardize and control the results.
Basic Education Secretary General Belio Kipsang, however, said the delay was caused by the large number of candidates last year.
The 2024 exams had the most candidates in the history of the exams; a total of 965,501 candidates took the exam.
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“This is the second year we release the results at the beginning of the year because….. you know the problem we all have is that when we release the results in December we are supposed to hurry up, so we decided to take time to deal with all the issues and make sure the results are released easily,” People Daily quoted him Kipsanf saying.
The PS dismissed claims that results have been delayed to allow cheating for big national schools, revealing that what is going on is “analysis of marks and marks” to allow examiners to spot possible errors.
With the new system, the markers were required to use some special codes and unique student IDs when processing papers.
However, during revision, some candidates ended up confusing the two, rules and student IDs and ended up awarding marks to the wrong candidates.
“There was a lot of confusion when correcting and summarizing the exams because not all the correctors were well aware of the new structure, some of us ended up marking the wrong candidates due to confusion about the rules and regulations. individual student IDs,” the examiner revealed to People Daily.
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In some cases, some index numbers appeared twice, with one exam paper belonging to a student from a completely different school.
And although the government has denied claims that the 2024 KCSE exam may have been seriously flawed, some candidates are raising flags, questioning how candidates' papers from local schools could have the same answers with the same spelling.
A case has been mentioned in the third paper of Kiswahili, where a question carrying 10 marks out of 80 had to be deleted after it was found that it was entered incorrectly.
“It was interesting when we found out that students from schools from certain counties had the same answers, even though they were all wrong,” another examiner told People Daily.
The examiners believe that the similarity of the answers may be an indication of either some teachers conducting the exams on behalf of the candidates or the candidates getting the paper early.
There are also concerns that students may have performed well in certain exams, particularly History and Christian Education (CRE), calling for closer scrutiny and standardization.
The Minister of Education, Julius Ogamba, had indicated that the results would be released on Tuesday, December 7.
2. The Standard
The post saved space for legal problems staring Police IG Douglas Kanja and the head of DCI Mohamed Amin, who boycotted the court for the second time.
Kanja, Amin and Interior Minister Kiupchumba Murkomen were earlier ordered to appear in court to answer questions about the recent enforced disappearance saga.
The trio failed to appear when it was first mentioned on December 31, 2024.
The case was adjourned to January 8, where Kanja and the two respondents were expected to appear again to explain why the previous orders were not implemented.
Murkomen sent his lawyer, Danstan Omari, while Kanja and Amin did not participate.
The Police IG cited his concern with other security-related duties.
In an early hearing on Wednesday, Judge Luck Mwamuye adjourned the case until the afternoon to allow Kanja to appear.
The judge after convening the court again, threatened to judge Kanja for contempt of court; this is after failure to occur again after postponement.
He said he would convict Amin and allow him to have a chance to mitigate.
The judge also reinstated lawyer Danstan Omari, who appeared on behalf of Murkomen, back to the case after dismissing him during the trial.
Mwamuye had previously ordered Kanja to release government critics who were kidnapped in December 2024.
3. Daily Nation
The newspaper highlighted the new problems facing political activist Morara Kebaso at the hands of the government.
Morara, an online critic of President William Ruto, is being investigated by the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) for alleged tax evasion.
The tax collector revealed that Morara has failed to pay KSh 27 million in tax over the past three years.
KRA revealed that the political activist earned more than KSh 186 million through his businesses but did not pay income every year.
The tax announcement shows that five companies including Morara Home Furniture, Morara Properties Limited, Luku Fashion, Igrow Digital Enterprise and Nacktent Security Limited are under investigation.
KRA also listed six vehicles owned by the 2027 presidential candidate, including a Land Cruiser, Land Cruiser Prado, Captain Tuk Tuk, a TVS motorcycle, a Renault van, and a Volkswagen Passat.
The authority also noted that Morara has been receiving money in his personal account, mainly through Mpesa, which was reported to pay for the installation of interior fittings and furniture.
In his defence, the activist denied the alleged tax evasion and submitted two tax compliance certificates for 2023 and 2024, issued to him by KRA.
4. Nation Today
Source: TUKO.co.ke
