Teachers Asked To Destroy Success Cards Bearing Politicians Portraits

NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan 11- The general election is just a few months away and politicians are expected to pull all manner of stunts to woe voters.

One such way is through mass printing of success cards, at times by competing politicians, to be issued to students- as an indirect way of reaching out to their parents.

But not anymore.

Education Cabinet Secretary Prof. George Magoha has however directed teachers to destroy all success cards bearing a portrait of a politician.

“Ensure that you destroy any success messages sent to students bearing political portraits without fear or favour. Our children are not in politics they are just children,” the Education Cabinet Secretary asserted.

He directed education officials in partnership with County Commissioners to ensure such cards are destroyed before they reach students.

He was speaking in Kakamega County, where he paid a visit to Mwiyala Secondary School, where there was a groundbreaking ceremony for Competency-Based-Curriculum (CBC) classes.

Students are set to sit for their national examinations in March.

“Examinations will be starting at the beginning of March this year so if we can all complete buildings before as I have been assured by very many or latest by the beginning of March, it will give us time to focus on the exams and allow us to start the second phase at the end of the exam which is in April,” he said.

Some 1,225,698 candidates have been registered to sit their 2021 KCPE while 832,026 candidates will sit their KCPE.

The tests include KCPE and KCSE for the 2021 class between March and April 2022.

The second set of exams will be conducted in December and will involve KCPE, KCSE class of 2022 and the final assessment for the pioneer class of the new curriculum who will be completing Grade 6.

Those currently in Std 7 and Form Three will sit their KCPE, KCSE examinations between November and December 2022.

KCPE will run between November 28 and December 1 while KCSE will be done from December 1 to December 23.

The examination calendar was interrupted at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country that resulted in the closure of schools for several months.