{"id":25567,"date":"2021-04-08T19:41:21","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T19:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/?p=25567"},"modified":"2021-04-08T19:41:21","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T19:41:21","slug":"teacher-arrested-over-kcse-leakage-in-4-counties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/teacher-arrested-over-kcse-leakage-in-4-counties","title":{"rendered":"Teacher Arrested Over KCSE Leakage in 4 Counties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AfricaPress-Kenya:<\/strong> A secondary school teacher has been arrested\u00a0in Homa Bay County over suspicions of being behind the leakage of the ongoing Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examination in four counties.<\/p>\n<p>Homa Bay County Commissioner Moses Lilan said that the Nyagwethe Secondary school teacher had\u00a0been supplying suspected KCSE exam papers to\u00a0a number of schools in the Nyanza Region.<\/p>\n<p>Lilan, who led the arrest, said that the suspect was caught distributing\u00a0leakage materials in Homa Bay, Kisii, Nyamira, and Migori Counties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have established that he is in cohorts with someone in Nairobi who sends the exam material to him via his mobile phone. He then circulates them to his accomplices in this region up to Kuria, the border between Kenya and Tanzania,\u201d said Lilan.<\/p>\n<article data-align=\"center\">\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kenyans.co.ke\/files\/styles\/article_inner_mobile\/public\/images\/media\/KCSE%20%282%29_0.jpg?itok=sh6z227y\" alt=\"d\" width=\"470\" height=\"235\" \/><\/div>\n<div>KCSE students sitting the national exam<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p>The teacher is reported to have been arrested in\u00a0Mbita town in Homa Bay\u00a0on Wednesday evening, April 7.\u00a0According to Lilan, the teacher was first detained at Mbita Police Station after the arrest.<\/p>\n<p>He was then transferred to Homa Bay Police Station as the officers from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) continue to look into the matter.<\/p>\n<p>The County Commissioner, while speaking\u00a0to the<em>\u00a0Standard\u00a0<\/em>said that they were yet to determine whether the KCSE papers that the suspect was circulating were real or fake.<\/p>\n<p>He further added that they were questioning the teacher in a bid to uncover other exam cartels as well as to find out\u00a0their\u00a0source from the\u00a0Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC)\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0if at all there is any.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe teacher works in a strong network of examination criminals. We want the suspect to tell us more about these people he has been colluding with,\u201d said Lilan.<\/p>\n<p>The arrest comes only two days after\u00a0a school principal\u00a0was arrested for sharing a Maths test paper through her WhatsApp status.<\/p>\n<p>Betta Mutuku, the ABC Secondary School Principal and a Chief Maths Examiner who was arrested on Tuesday, April\u00a06, has since been released.<\/p>\n<p>After her arrest, however, Education CS George Magoha announced\u00a0that the Maths paper\u00a0she had shared was fake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AfricaPress-Kenya: A secondary school teacher has been arrested\u00a0in Homa Bay County over suspicions of being behind the leakage of the ongoing Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examination in four counties. Homa Bay County Commissioner Moses Lilan said that the Nyagwethe Secondary school teacher had\u00a0been supplying suspected KCSE exam papers to\u00a0a number of schools in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":25577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,8],"tags":[335,8105],"class_list":["post-25567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-homepage-english","tag-kcse","tag-teacher"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Teacher Arrested Over KCSE Leakage in 4 Counties - kenya<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A secondary school teacher has been arrested\u00a0in Homa Bay County over suspicions of being behind the leakage of the ongoing Kenya\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/teacher-arrested-over-kcse-leakage-in-4-counties\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Teacher Arrested Over KCSE Leakage in 4 Counties\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A secondary school teacher has been arrested\u00a0in Homa Bay County over suspicions of being behind the leakage of the ongoing Kenya\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/teacher-arrested-over-kcse-leakage-in-4-counties\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"kenya\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-04-08T19:41:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2021\/04\/magoha_4-606f5bd837d9b.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"470\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"235\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/teacher-arrested-over-kcse-leakage-in-4-counties#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/teacher-arrested-over-kcse-leakage-in-4-counties\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Teacher Arrested Over KCSE Leakage in 4 Counties\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-04-08T19:41:21+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/teacher-arrested-over-kcse-leakage-in-4-counties\"},\"wordCount\":355,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/teacher-arrested-over-kcse-leakage-in-4-counties#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2021\/04\/magoha_4-606f5bd837d9b.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"KCSE\",\"Teacher\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\",\"homepage-english\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/teacher-arrested-over-kcse-leakage-in-4-counties#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/teacher-arrested-over-kcse-leakage-in-4-counties\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/teacher-arrested-over-kcse-leakage-in-4-counties\",\"name\":\"Teacher Arrested Over KCSE Leakage in 4 Counties - 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