“Perpetrators have the intention of winning an extra 45 minutes allocated to disabled learners but it is dangerous and viewed as outright malpractice,” Odongo said.
The head of the Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) Dan Odongo has disclosed that the board has contracted experts to follow perpetrators of online related examination malpractices cautioning that victims will be arrested.
Odongo also castigated school heads who wrongfully register able bodied candidates as having physical impairment with the aim of convincing the board to allocate extra examination time. Without mentioning names, Odongo said experts have been to different schools to ascertain this, but found that the said disabled children are actually okay.
He was addressing school inspectors drawn from various districts and cities attending their annual conference to review hardships they encounter in the discharge of their duties, in addition to devise means of countering examination malpractices.
He sternly warned those involved in the practice saying their days are numbered because he added, those caught in the act this year will face the tough consequences.
“Perpetrators have the intention of winning an extra 45 minutes allocated to disabled learners but it is dangerous and viewed as outright malpractice,” Odongo said.
The meeting was attended by the State Minister for Primary Education Dr. Joyce Moriku Kaducu who implored school inspectors not to stay aloof in the responsibility to guard against examination malpractices, reasoning that when the education standard deteriorates, the entire nation is affected.
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Kaducu appealed to arts teachers currently on strike to resume work with assurances that government is preparing the 2026/2027 budget where their plight will be addressed after they have clarified and presented it to relevant experts for inclusion in the budgetary estimates.
The head of examinations in UNEB, Mike Nangosya Masikye urged people responsible for delivering examination papers to schools, to desist from assigning boda boda cyclists to deliver the papers, and do it themselves to avoid possible unwanted eventualities.
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