3 KCSE candidates at Moi Girls’-Eldoret ‘to put up in lodgings throughout exam period’

By Dun Wanga

Three KCSE candidates sitting the national exam at Moi Girls’ High School in Eldoret will have to put up in accommodation facilities throughout the exam period after they were expelled from the school a few weeks to the test.

The three — all aged 17 — are alleged to have committed different wrongs “worth expulsion”.

The girls’ parents, however, claim the school did not follow due procedure in expelling their daughters.

“Our girls are now forced to put up in lodgings throughout the one-month exam period,” one of the parents told K24 Digital.

“We now fear that, given the conditions our daughters are studying under, they will, most likely, perform poorly. Honestly, they are traumatised and humiliated,” said another parent.

The three girls, who hail from Meru, Kisumu and Eldoret, have been staying in a lodging facility in Eldoret for the past one week.

The teenagers’ parents say they have reached Education minister Prof. George Magoha for intervention.

Uasin Gishu County Director of Education, Gitonga Mbaka, gave K24 Digital a brief response concerning the matter, saying: “We’re investigating claims of alleged mistreatment of the girls. Expect to hear from us on Wednesday, November 6.”

Moi Girls’ High School principal declined to comment on the matter.

In many schools across Kenya, it is near-normal for expelled students to be barred from sitting KCSE exam while staying within the school compound.