Mudavadi arrives at St Georges to preside over KCPE exams

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Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi arrived at St George's Primary School to preside over the KCPE and KPSEA exams which start today. https://rb.gy/a81mf

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00:34 Me coming here and the president being elsewhere and other leaders,

00:41 we are actually partnering with the Department of Education

00:46 to show that we all want the integrity of our exams

00:53 to be upheld and to be beyond reproach.

00:57 That is what we are seeking here.

01:00 So by us joining and encouraging them at this particular moment,

01:04 I think it's not just a question of us being here for the sake of it.

01:11 I think we want to send a very strong symbolism to the people of Kenya

01:16 that the integrity of the exams is paramount

01:19 so that their credentials can be recognized,

01:24 not just within our boundaries but even beyond.

01:28 So that is absolutely important.

01:30 No supervisor should repeat a center more than twice,

01:34 as a supervisor and an investigator,

01:37 so that then we bring in objectivity.

01:41 You know, the more you get used to a place,

01:43 then your objectivity grows,

01:46 and then you may start having some second,

01:49 because you have known the place.

01:52 This time around, sir, to make sure that we effectively deliver this examination,

01:59 we are again saying that the supervisors and investigators

02:03 that are primary school teachers, man the exam in primary school.

02:09 And the teachers in secondary school also man the examination in secondary school.

02:15 That means the investigators and supervisors at secondary school level

02:20 are going to be secondary school teachers.

02:25 To eliminate again what has been slightly bedeviling us,

02:31 that is early exposure,

02:35 at secondary school level we are going to have the container opened twice.

02:41 One in the morning at 7 a.m. in the morning,

02:46 so that we get the morning paper only,

02:49 the papers that are done in that morning.

02:51 And then once these papers have been done,

02:54 then they are returned to the container

02:57 just to get the paper that was being done in the afternoon.

03:02 So that then we can have very little time

03:07 that the teachers have or the school has with the examination.

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