KCSE: Heads roll as 35 phones, mwakenya found at exam centre

At least 19 teachers, among them a principal and his deputy invigilating exams in Bobachoge Borabu in Kisii County were Tuesday interdicted following the discovery of more than 30 phones at the exam centre.

Kebabe SDA Secondary School Principal and his deputy are among those interdicted as officers from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) started a probe.

A staggering cluster of 31 phones were seized from the school's boys' dormitory.

An additional three(3) were recovered inside the examination room.

Also impounded were short notes popularly known as mwakenya which were handed over to the detectives.

A police report said a Kenya National Examination Council (Knec) officer doing routine inspection stumbled on phones, the largest of such a seize so far from an examination centre.

"In some of the phones, some notes suspected to be answers to the paper the candidates were sitting for, were found still streaming in," the police report said.

Two(2) supervisors and 15 invigilators are among those suspended.