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    "content": "The KNEC has had challenges in the management of examinations in the country. I would like to highlight some of these challenges with respect to North Eastern Province for Members of Parliament to appreciate the complexity of the situation and to note how some of these challenges could contribute to examination cheating. During the administration of 2008 examinations, there were many reported attempts to compromise examination material stored in different distribution centres in North Eastern Province. The KNEC, with the help of security personnel, assisted in the investigations. There was then a gang that operated between Bura East and Fafi districts that was unearthed. The gang leader was arrested in Malindi and he revealed the following: (1) He was networking with 17 candidates who were arrested and after investigations, their results were cancelled. (2) He confessed that he used to charge as much as Kshs200,000 per candidate. (3) He claimed to have been working with an Administration Police officer stationed at the Garrisa Police Station and an inquiry file opened in 2008 in Garissa is still pending. (4) The gang leader was charged in a Malindi court for the case. The case is still pending before the court. The KNEC used to dispatch examination materials for the entire four week examination period but in response to this threat to the security of examination materials, the KNEC introduced a weekly dispatch of examination papers to reduce the time of storage in the distribution centres. In 2009, the gang, again, tried to acquire examination materials from Coast and Garissa. The leader was arrested on 19th October, 2009, as he prepared to leave Coast for Garissa apparently to acquire examination materials. He was found in possession of fake vehicle number plates which he would fix on his vehicle to avoid being detected. During the same 2009 examinations, when three KNEC officers attempted to visit Sankuri Secondary School in Garissa where examination irregularities were reported to have been taking place, they found the school gates locked and no one on sight to allow them entry. To establish exactly what was happening, one of the monitoring officers had to risk his life by climbing over the fence to open the gates only to get to the examination rooms and find candidates freely using textbooks and notebooks during the examination. In 2010, intelligence reports received indicated that there were attempts to cheat in the Daadab Refugee Camp Examination Centre. When supervisors attempted to deter them, the mob roughed up the supervision team almost making the examination sitting impossible and that is in the public domain because it appeared in the papers. A security team composed of a KNEC officer, a Ministry of Education officer, a local guide and a Ministry of Education driver were dispatched to Daadab on 7th November, 2010. On 8th November, 2010, the security monitoring team was attacked by an armed gang as they travelled to Daadab. The officers were beaten and violently robbed of cash and other valuables. During the attack, the robbers told the officers that they were militia men and had been monitoring the movement of the KNEC/Ministry of Education Officers. They threatened to kill them and take the vehicle away. The officers pleaded for mercy and were---"
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