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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, there are only 170 senior staff in the Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC). Therefore, they cannot be personally present in close to 30,000 centres for both the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) and the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examinations countrywide. Therefore, to manage these examinations, the Council enters into agency with the Ministry of Education officials who include the eight Provincial Directors of Education, Provincial Examination Officers, all the District Education Officers, District Examination Officers and other senior education officers in the field so as to manage the field administration of examinations. The KNEC also works with the Provincial and District Administration for provision of security and transport services. Through these offices, the KNEC then employs the services of trained supervisors, invigilators and security personnel. For the 2011 KCSE examinations, there were 6,215 supervisors, 22,496 invigilators and 12,796 security personnel who were deployed to man this examination. Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is true that 1,694 candidates out of a population of 4,303 in North Eastern Province were involved in examination irregularities in 40 out of 60 schools and their results were cancelled. This indicates that over 60 per cent of the candidates in North Eastern Province got their results but 39.37 per cent who were involved in examination malpractices had their results cancelled. The nature of these irregularities was mainly collusion which involved 1,686 candidates while eight candidates were caught in possession of unauthorized materials when the examination was in progress."
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