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Appearing before the National Assembly’s Committee on Education, Machogu stated that the headteachers changed their low scores to inaccurate figures that they mounted on their noticeboards.
He added that the school heads also lied to the public about their performance noting that some of them including headteachers of Kisii and Western schools went around with vehicles to celebrate the false results.
“One such school was a National school in Western where the headteacher wanted to make it seem as if he had performed well and put the fake mean scores on the notice board yet his mean score was much lower.
“There were also schools in Kisii, and in one of them, the principal even went around with vehicles celebrating that he had a mean score of seven points something when the reality of it was that he had a lower mean score,” Machogu explained.
The CS faulted the media for sharing a false narrative that schools in certain areas especially Kisii, Nyamira and Nyanza had recorded the highest results.
He stated that the media claimed that the said counties had received special treatment for reasons he added were not known to him.
“There has been a portrayal in the mainstream and social media that schools from certain counties achieved extraordinary scores.
“The intended narrative is that these counties were accorded an advantage for reasons that have never been stated. In particular, Kisii and Nyamira counties were especially targeted,” he stated.
Further, he revealed that schools in Kisii and Nyamira had the least number of grade As in the 2022 KCSE exams noting that schools in Kiambu were the best performers.
Machogu stated that Mang’u High School had the highest number of As posting a total of 79As in the national test.
“Contrary to this propaganda Kisii and Nyamira counties actually had the least number of grade As.
“The school which had the most As was Mang’u which had 79 As. Kiambu as a county had 226 As because of the many national schools so the As were spread countrywide,” he noted.
Machogu also blamed the previous administration for the challenges faced in the implementation of the Junior Secondary School(JSS) education adding that they had been able to get things back in order
“You know that when this administration came in the entire education system would have been total chaos but we were able to get back and get things right.
“Immediately we came there was a presidential working party, as of now we are moving on and mitigating the challenges coming along the way,” Machogu stated.
