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Police in Nyamira county have launched investigations after a student sitting the ongoing Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) was allegedly beaten by a Ministry of Education official. Citizen Digital reported that a student at Sironga Girls High School collapsed on Tuesday, November 12, after a Ministry of Education official assaulted her. According to the police report, the candidate was taking the exam in class when Betarice Kendi, a quality assurance officer, entered the room at about 9am.
At the time, the student was chewing something Kendi suspected to be “unauthorised material” and slapped her but never recovered the exhibit. “She moved closer and slapped the student severally but did not recover any exhibit to effect,” police report reads in part. After the ministry official left, the student became restless in class and collapsed just before the exam ended around 10. Police said the student was rushed to the school dispensary, attended to, and discharged “in fair state.”
by Amos Khaemba