Sack Education CS Kaimenyi, KNUT tells Uhuru

Sack Education CS Kaimenyi, KNUT tells Uhuru

The Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) has announced that it is appalled by Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) exam irregularities, and it has called for the resignation of Education Secretary Prof. Jacob Kaimenyi.

In a circular sent to newsrooms, the union said the widely reported cases of exam leakage and cheating spell out doom for the country’s already ailing education sector.

Accusing Kaimenyi of living in self-denial for refuting claims of exam leakage in the face of concrete evidence, the teacher’s body said the CS handled the matter callously.

“We are further appalled by the callous manner in which the Cabinet Secretary for Education Prof Jacob Kaimenyi is handling the reported incidences of cheating through leakage of examination materials to candidates,” said KNUT.

Citing exam irregularities, reemergence of fake degrees and the disruption of third term education occasioned by the recent teachers’ strike, KNUT blamed Kaimenyi for what they termed as the deterioration of the education sector.

“KNUT, as a stakeholder in the education sector, is worried about the future of this county’s education which appears to be draining to the sewers under the leadership of Prof. Kaimenyi,” read the statement.

The teacher’s body argued that Kaimenyi’s policies, like the abolition of examination ranking to curb cheating, have failed.

KNUT further blamed Kaimenyi for mismanaging teachers’ issues, saying that the recent teacher’s strike was made worse by the CS’s “hard-line position”.

In the circular, signed by KNUT Secretary General Wilson Sossion, the teacher’s body urged President Uhuru Kenyatta to remove Kaimenyi from the education docket.

“We urge the President of Kenya, His Excellency, Uhuru Kenyatta to take responsibility over these issues and remove Prof. Kaimenyi from the education portfolio in order to salvage the education sector from total collapse,” read their statement.

“He has failed to secure our examination integrity, he has ridiculed the teachers and he is associated with everything that is going wrong in the education sector,” added KNUT.

The union also said that it would not relent in its fight to get the disputed pay increase that saw teachers down their tools for seven weeks: “Let it be known that we are not about to give up on the legitimate CBA award of 50% to 60% nor surrender our September 2015 salaries contained in the court orders which are firmly in force.”

KCSE candidates across the country are sitting for their national exams even as the dispute on exam leakage rages on.

The Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) on Wednesday denied the allegations saying that the exam papers being shared on social media are not the real ones.

Citizen TV was however able to prove that the Mathematics Paper II exam doing rounds on social media is indeed the same one that Form Four students sat for.

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