Education Principal Secretary Belio Kipsang in the company of Nairobi's Regional Director of Education Margaret Lesuuda arrived at the Westlands sub-county containers to launch the start of the theory KCSE tests. https://bit.ly/3QqEQKD
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00:34 We should be allowing you to pick examinations for the next one week to go.
00:38 But you know we betray ourselves that now we need to even pick it twice.
00:45 And it's not because of our children.
00:49 It's because of ourselves.
00:51 So really we need to address this trust issue.
00:55 So that going forward, we can trust ourselves.
01:00 And we can trust the work of our hands.
01:04 And that our children should be left to be children.
01:10 Let's leave them to be children.
01:12 Let them give us their full potential.
01:15 Let's give them an opportunity to give us their full potential.
01:19 Let them give us their best.
01:22 And we should not define that best for them.
01:25 Let it be from themselves.
01:27 Because maybe part of the problem is that we have been defining for them what is best.
01:32 And out of that we've been taking them through situations that they should not be going through.
01:37 So as a teacher, as a parent, I think as parents also we should be able to trust our children.
01:47 But most importantly, we should be able to trust those people we haven't trusted our children to.
01:53 The teachers.
01:57 So that we don't go into mobilization situations where we get resources to try to do the wrong thing.
02:04 So once again my good colleagues, I think today I felt that when we ask you to be in the container twice,
02:16 it is a signal to ourselves.
02:24 And it is a direction that we should not be going.
02:27 Because I am sure as professionals we can do better.
02:32 Yeah, we can do better.
02:35 And that's what I would urge all of us.
02:37 Our PSR, this Westlands has 13 centres, 14 are private and 14 are public.
02:46 We have had very little challenges in Westlands, in the Kibsar and KCP.
02:53 But allow me, sir, just to mention a few close-cutting issues.
02:56 One of them is closing gates. Keep your gates open. That one we know.
03:02 The other observation we are making is when the remaining question papers are left unsealed,
03:11 please ensure they are sealed.
03:13 The other thing, sir, in this case on the DCC and our security people,
03:19 we have seen that the requests of the police officers really become very popular.
03:23 We have gone to centres where the police officer is sitting far from the exam.
03:28 And the other ones are on phone.
03:32 We are requesting that they are the ones who should stop us even from accessing centres with phones.
03:38 And they are the ones who are holding it.
03:40 So we are requesting that you observe that.
03:42 And then lastly, centre managers, I am appealing to you before the PSR.
03:47 Do not sit in your orchids as if you are planted there.
03:51 Do what we call umboa, management by walking around.
03:54 This is your exam.
03:56 If you sit there and you don't know what is happening in classes, surely,
03:59 if cheating happens, who will be the first one to go?
04:02 Senewewe, unga kaziako, tembea, look at the classroom,
04:07 just peep and see whether your learners are doing the right thing.
04:10 The supervisors and the regulators we are giving you are unknown to you.
04:15 So you don't know what plans they could be having, even with the candidates.
04:17 You don't know. So please, guard.
04:20 Then, sir, we have also told the private schools that any school that will cheat, we are going to close.
04:26 We closed two last year, 2021, two others.
04:31 We will close any other that will attempt.
04:33 If that is your business, take care of it properly.
04:36 Pro kani.
04:37 [END]