THE TWO GIRLS IN NYAHURURU AND MOLO DELIVER BOUNCING BABIES
Two Form Four students felt labour pains hours before the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Examination (KCSE) exams kicked off. The teenage girls were rushed to hospitals and minutes later, delivered bouncing babies. Hospital staff in Nyahururu and Molo had to make special arrangement for the two young mothers to sit for their KSCE in the respective hospitals…
BY HOME NEWS TEAM
Two Form Four students in Nyahururu and Molo are writing her KCSE exams at respective district hospitals after delivering babies prior to the exams’ D-day.
In Nyahururu, staff members at the Nyahururu District Hospital were forced to convert a nurses’ room into an exam-sitting centre when a student delivered a bouncing baby boy at the hospital.
The unidentified teenage student gave birth barely day after she had started exams at Mukoe Secondary School
And in Molo, Eveline Wanjiru, aged 18 years was admitted at Molo District Hospital night of Tuesday, September 18, several hours before the sitting of exams kicked off.
The Njenga Karume Secondary School student jointly with her mother Ann Mumbi Njenga expressed optimism that she will excel in the national exams, adding that she was confident that once discharged she will join colleagues in school until the end of the test.
Mrs Njenga said her family had appreciated the baby boy adding that she will support and love her only daughter and assist her in bringing up the kid.
Molo District Hospital administrator Dominic Mburu said the girl was responding well to treatment and was writing her papers with courage.
Meanwhile a student at Molo Secondary School failed to turn up for the paper despite moving out of his homestead prepared for the exam.
The school’s headmaster informed the family about their missing boy and until going to the press the family were searching for the exam-fearing boy.
A total of 1843 candidates are seating for the paper in Molo district, with 904 being male and 939 girls according to the data available at District Education Officer Galma G Galma’s office.
Meanwhile in Nyahururu, KCSE started off well in Nyahururu district. A source from the education office in Nyahururu said that the examinations were safely distributed yesterday to the specific centers.
The district registered a total of 38 secondary schools with candidates sitting for the main exam. The school with the highest population being Njonjo Girls with 185 candidates while the least had 12 candidates who were forced to merge with another school since the minimum number of candidates should be 15 candidates.
Meanwhile the Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) Ndungu Wangenye of the Laikipia County clarified that in the Laikipia County there are a total of 92 secondary schools with candidates sitting for KCSE the examination.
There are approximately 1500-2000 students in the Laikipia County.
However, some of the challenges faced by the KUPPET of the Laikipia County are: briefing of the supervisors and invigilators of the Laikipia west are not done at their places assigned instead they are held in Laikipia east yet they are not offered allowances like transport and accommodation where they are forced to incur their own finances and are asking for refunds from the KNEC who are supposed to cater for the allowances.
Another challenge is that the KNEC has not offered enough transport for the exams to be allocated to their specific centers where some are forced to use boda boda for transportation of the exam papers which are not safe.
The supervisors and invigilators are paid peanuts by the KNEC so they are urging them to improve the payments
On the other hand there has been no cheating reported so far.
REPORTED BY WARUI SIMON, BERNARD WAWERU AND WACHU KABIRU
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