BY NT CORRESPONDENT.
Over 120 students from Intergrated High School in Garissa County have sued the Kenya National Examination Council for cancelling their examination results of 2018.
In a certificate of urgency filed before the High Court in Nairobi by the students through Abdirazak Omar Ibrahim on behalf of other affected parents says that there could been no irregularities or malpractices at the school with the heavy presence of relevant government agencies, security agencies and other institutions involved in the examination administration.
” During the examination the school adopted various measures to ensure that there was no malpractices including not limited to assigning five students different rooms which were manned by competent investigators and security agents” the parent says.
The parents of the 125 students now seeking intervention of the court in order to quash the decision of KNEC and it be compelled to remark the examination.
They are further urging the court to compel KNEC to provide their marking reports for English 101, Chief Investigator’s report, the chief examiner report and KNEC investigation reports and any other relevant material relied to cancel the results.
According to the court documents the aggrieved school through lawyer Evans Mirieri, says that the 125 students an like other candidates who sat the sat the examination in 2018 expected the results to enable them join other institutions of higher learning.
Lawyers says that on December last year KNEC wrote a letter to the school management to effect that the 125 students from the institution were found to have engaged in examination irregularity and that their results were cancelled.
Mirieri claims that the students were not accorded an opportunity to defend themselves as required by law.
“Attempt by the parent in a letter dated January 4, 2019 seeking review of the decision to cancel the examination result was declined by examiner,” says the petitioner.
