Drama as KCSE candidate flees from exam room
By Joshua Cheloti
Police officers in Baringo County have launched a manhunt for a Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) candidate who escaped from an examination room in Mogotio during the Agriculture paper administered on Wednesday, March 30, 2022.
According to a statement from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), the drama unfolded at Radat Secondary School when the candidate, Kennedy Ruto, suddenly put on civilian clothes to conceal his school uniform and jumped over the school fence to a neighbouring compound.
Detectives who were within the school’s vicinity became suspicious and followed suit over the fence.
On seeing the police officers, Ruto and two other unknown persons who were conversing in low tones scampered to different, leaving behind a mobile phone that contained a replica of the Geography and Physics papers administered on Tuesday and the Agriculture paper that the candidates sat yesterday.
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“A manhunt for the suspect and his accomplices has since been launched with detectives based at the forensic cyber and digital laboratory, joining in the operation,” DCI said in a tweet.
This comes even as detectives in Nairobi were arraigning four other suspects at the Milimani Law Courts, who were part of a larger syndicate dubbed ‘Bailing out’ and the ‘Kalee’ group arrested two weeks ago.
The four are suspected of masterminding examination fraud in social media groups with followers in their thousands sitting the ongoing KCSE examination, buying examination papers and answers.
Gideon Tanui, Kevin Kiprotich, Justice Leting, and James Obongo pleaded not guilty and were released on Ksh300,000 cash bail and a bond of Ksh500,000 each with a surety of a similar amount.
In a countrywide operation mounted by DCI detectives to ensure that the credibility of the national examination is upheld, other suspects were rounded up in Mbita, Garbatula, and Turkana, where over 60 mobile phones were confiscated.
Cybercrime detectives are currently analyzing mobile phones to retrieve further incriminating materials for a watertight case against the suspects.
“A more comprehensive report on the ongoing KCSE examination fraud to follow,” said DCI.
File image of a police vehicle. |Photo| Courtesy|[/caption]
“A manhunt for the suspect and his accomplices has since been launched with detectives based at the forensic cyber and digital laboratory, joining in the operation,” DCI said in a tweet.
This comes even as detectives in Nairobi were arraigning four other suspects at the Milimani Law Courts, who were part of a larger syndicate dubbed ‘Bailing out’ and the ‘Kalee’ group arrested two weeks ago.
The four are suspected of masterminding examination fraud in social media groups with followers in their thousands sitting the ongoing KCSE examination, buying examination papers and answers.
Gideon Tanui, Kevin Kiprotich, Justice Leting, and James Obongo pleaded not guilty and were released on Ksh300,000 cash bail and a bond of Ksh500,000 each with a surety of a similar amount.
In a countrywide operation mounted by DCI detectives to ensure that the credibility of the national examination is upheld, other suspects were rounded up in Mbita, Garbatula, and Turkana, where over 60 mobile phones were confiscated.
Cybercrime detectives are currently analyzing mobile phones to retrieve further incriminating materials for a watertight case against the suspects.
“A more comprehensive report on the ongoing KCSE examination fraud to follow,” said DCI. What's Your Reaction?
