National assembly education committee says it will summon Kenya national examinations council KNEC top brass over what it termed as allegations of 2022 national exam national cheating.

The committee led by its chairman Julius Melly  held a public forum with members of the public at the Kenya coast national polytechnic  in Mombasa on Thursday where it received shocking revelations about exam irregularities reported in the 2022 Kenya certificate of secondary education examinations KCSE.

The committee heard that cheating is a collusion of major players from parents, principals, and the examination council officials. While responding to the allegations,Melly said KNEC officials have a date with the committee to explain the truth.

“The confessions and talks by members of public, that one thing that is quite true and cutting across is that there was cheating I the KCSE 2022, and the cheatings in most of the exams originated from KNEC, the council itself is actually the main source of cheating, it’s alleged that the council is the one selling its exams,” said Melly.

Melly said the committee will make recommendations that will spell very punitive measures to examination cheaters. The Mps have also vowed to review the KNEC laws to strengthen it and be able to tame cheating.Melly said the public engagement to seal national exams cheating gaps.

 “We want to investigate the extent at which the cheating was, the decision will be tough, we will make sure that these cheating stops. We are collecting views from the public so that we can know where exam cheating gaps are so that we can seal them, we are also here to find out if certain schools awarded marks more than others in the just concluded KCSE exam,” said Melly.

Speaking to journalists after the completion of the forum the legislators now say KNEC officials whi moght have been involved must carry their own cross.

"We will summon KNEC officials to come to the committee and explain why they leaked papers, we will sanitize this problem once and for all," Melly added.

 According to Timothy Kipchumba,a member of Parliament from Marakwet West  and member of the committee said the committee is determined to clean up the exam cheating menace in the country.

"We want to ensure we secure the exam, integrity and protest the certificates that are churned out ,we also want to ensure we produce graduates that are competent to work in the public service," said Kiprotich.

Committee also  got shocking allegations from members of the public regarding the 2022 Kenya certificate of secondary education KCSE exam cheating purge.

The committee chaired by Joshua Melly was told that some schools who are used to producing good grades, pay as much as sh 1 million to get exam leakages and help maintain their top performance grip in the national examination chart.

Without mentioning names, some of the teachers who wanted their names concealed for fear of victimization alleged that some national schools and private schools are the main suspects in the purchase and distribution.

According to Mombasa KUPPET executive secretary Lynatte Hamadi claimed that some principals collude with students who disappear from the school after registration of KCSE and then reappear during exam rehearsals to sneak in exam leakages.

"We have noted that some students deliberately commit offences so that they can be suspended, then they go on their way to buy exam papers, these are the ones who sneak leakages to the fellow students. As school heads, we want to be helped because the law does not allow us to deregister," claimed Hamadi.

Some of the speakers, who addressed the MPS public hearing, claimed that marking schemes are also leaked and generated to students even before the students sit for exams through a well coordinated scheme of people.

"The examinations of 2022 were marred with malpractices that saw examination papers and marking schemes circulating on social media before rolling out of the said papers. This means that within the council, there were persons who gained access to the examination materials and knowingly revealed the contents to unauthorised persons,"Hamadi added.

It also emerged that exam setters collude with principals of giant public schools or private schools to leak questions that will appear in the final national examination.

They claimed that some teachers are coerced by their employer, the teachers service commission TSC to produce grades so that they can get promotions.