It came as a shock to both students and teachers of Oruba Boys in Migori and Kowidi Secondary in Homa Bay after learning that every student in both institutions scored a D in the 2024 KCSE exams.
Learners from Oruba were outraged, taking their grievances to the Migori County Director of Education Office .They alleged result manipulation as only two out of 75 student scored a mean grade of C-(minus), with the rest scoring Ds and Es.
The results, according to the students, were an innacurate reflection of their true capabilities.
“We want our results. What we have received is not our results,” stated Aloys Otieno, one of the students.
“There is no way each of us could get a D. This is impossible,” Otieno said.
Some of the students claimed that they had been driven out of their homes by their furious parents and were now looking for their actual results.
Another student John Omondi, was in disbelief when he received his results on his mobile phone.
“I was not expecting to get a D for my hard work. I was fully prepared for the exams and I knew I would score better grades,” he said.
“In an examination, there must be top candidates and those who get low grades. But in our case, we got almost similar grades, which does not make sense,” he further argued.
Their attempts to reach the school principal, deputy principal and even the exam master were unsucessful as they were unreachable both in person and over the phone.
Moreover, their hopes were crushed into mud when they arrived at the Education Office only to find it empty, with only a junior officer who declined to comment on the same. He instead directed them to the Kenya National Examination Council offices to resolve the matter.
