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Pupils Sit Fake PLE
By John Eremu
CANDIDATES at Moruku primary school in Kiira sub-county thought they were sitting the right examinations until the final day when their headmaster took to his heels just as the Police stormed the school.
The Police are now hunting for Dan Kulubya to explain how the 18 candidates at his school came to sit past Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE) papers instead of the 2002, which the Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) supplied.
Kasangati Police chief Robert Mukede said yesterday Kulubya must answer several questions in connection with the incident.
�We got some information and went to the school on the second day of the examinations but Kulubya took off. We got samples of the mathematics and science papers. We found they were different from those supplied by UNEB. We are not sure whether the earlier papers (English and SST) were also fake,� Mukede said.
He said preliminary investigations had revealed that the school had no examination centre number.
Each candidate at Moruku reportedly paid sh6,000 as examinations fees. But Kulubya is suspected to have pocketed the money and instead preferred the cheaper option of buying past papers, which cost sh500 at UNEB outlets.
Education ministry spokesman Aggrey Kibenge described the incident as criminal and urged parents to ensure the law takes its course.
He said the future of the candidates had been affected because UNEB cannot set a special examination for them.
�That is a criminal act and should be treated as such. The parents should make sure the suspect is made to face the full course of the law. They should not allow negotiations outside the law because they would be ruining the future of their children,� Kibenge said.
UNEB spokesperson Eva Konde warned parents against taking their children to schools without centre numbers.
She urged the parents to always crosscheck with UNEB if they doubt the registration status of a particular school.
There have be
en other cases of school heads fleecing students.
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Published on: Thursday, 28th November, 2002 |
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