Matiangi dismisses Sossions call for audit of 2016 KCSE results

Matiangi dismisses Sossions call for audit of 2016 KCSE results

 

Education Cabinet Secretary Dr Fred Matiang’i has dismissed sentiments by Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) Secretary General Wilson Sossion that last year’s KCSE results should be audited.

Speaking during the Wings to Fly event by Equity Group, Dr Matiang’i said that reforms of any kind are usually faced with resistance, and vowed that they would not stop pushing on with their agenda.

“I hasten to observe that reforms of any kind attract different types of resistance. Sincere people will come with open resistance seeking to dialogue while others plan hidden resistance out of unfounded fear. Some others will even advance malicious resistance that is born of ill intentions,” he said.

The CS blamed last year’s widespread school unrest on text book and examination cheating cartels, adding that despite critics calling for the ministry to close schools they remained open.

“When we experienced rampant school unrest in late second term of the year, some critics asked us to abruptly close schools, blaming the incidents on the tough examination rules. We declined to heed their calls since we saw the hand of examination cheating and text book sales cartels that wanted to stop us from implementing rules that could run them out of their illegal business including hawking leaked examination papers,” he said.

Yesterday, KNUT Secretary General Wilson Sossion insisted on an audit of the KCSE results released towards the end of last year saying the examinations council KNEC and Cabinet Secretary Dr Fred Matiang’i failed to declare the grading system and performance in each of the subjects.

Sossion, who decried the reduction of top grades and the unprecedented rise of the lowest grade of E to over 33,000, says the system applied in the 2016 exam was punitive on the candidates.

Ministry of Education officials and those from KNEC have remained mum over the issue saying Sossion’s call for an audit of the results has been addressed to the National Assembly and not directly to them.

“We’ve not argued from the blue. We have generated a report that contains statistics and a comparison of performance from last year to this year,” said Sossion.

Meanwhile, Kirinyaga County Senator Daniel Karaba has come to the defence of Education Cabinet Secretary Dr Fred Matiang’i following yesterday’s (Sunday) call by the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) for an audit of last year’s KCSE results.

Speaking to Citizen Digital on Monday, Senator Karaba, who is also Senate’s education committee chairman, said that KNUT Secretary General Wilson Sossion has no reason to audit the results as they were credible and honest.

The Senator added that remarking the exam would be a waste of time and that they should be accepted by all Kenyans.

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