- Azimio la Umoja One Kenya Coalition Party leader Raila Odinga has continued to question the integrity of the 2023 Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) exam results
- Raila claimed the exams were compromised the moment the government cancelled a tender awarded to a United Kingdom-based company
- The former prime minister now wants the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) to probe senior government officials over the errors
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Amos Khaemba, a journalist at TUKO.co.ke, brings over three years of experience covering politics and current affairs in Kenya.
Nairobi - ODM leader Raila Odinga has alleged that tender wars within the Kenya Kwanza administration are to blame for the anomalies witnessed in the 2023 Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) exams.
Addressing the press on Wednesday, December 6, Raila claimed President William Ruto's government cancelled a contract awarded to a United Kingdom-based firm that was initially supposed to print exams.
According to the former prime minister, the government awarded the tender to a company based on Mombasa Road, which had no capacity to deliver on the task.
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"We've established that early this year, the government abruptly stopped this contract because the UK company refused to give kickbacks. Without following any legal process, the KK awarded the KCPE contract to a politically connected local company based in Mombasa Road in Nairobi.
The government was advised that the local company could not print the exams and ensure its security, especially on short notice. Nobody would budge because there were kickbacks involved," Raila claimed.
Raila alleged that the mess in the 2023 KCPE exams started as a tender war, pitting various senior officials in the Ministry of Education against each other before eventually being taken over by an official much higher up in government.
The Azimio la Umoja One Kenya Coalition Party leader disclosed that he had written to the Director of Criminal Investigations (DCI) to investigate the errors witnessed in the national exams.
“We have written to all stakeholders, including religious organisations, teachers unions, and even the DCI Kenya, to stand up and ensure the integrity of our national examinations is not eroded,” he added.
At the same time, Raila called for the establishment of a task force to investigate claims of exam cheating witnessed in the last national examinations.
“A task force comprising stakeholders in the Education sector needs to be established to investigate cheating in National Examinations as witnessed in the last two National examinations ie KCPE and KCSE,” the ODM leader said.
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