"BLIND STUDENT'S FUTURE HANGS IN BALANCE"
"Blind Student's Future Hangs in Balance: Juma Abdallah, a grade 10 hopeful from Busia County, still awaits KJSEA results 2 months after release, allegedly due to Knec official's demand for bribe 😔. Lost 4 placements, counting on sponsorship."
Few days after students in the country began joining secondary schools for grade ten studies, a blind boy who Sat for the KJSEA assessment hoping to join grade ten, is still at home after missing the results of last year's assessment.
Two months down the line after the Kenya National Examinations Council (Knec) released the results of the KJSEA assessment, Juma Abdallah from Amukura in Teso South Sub-County in Busia, who was a student at Koyonzo Special School for the virtually Impaired Students in Matungu sub-county, Kakamega County, has not received his results or admission letter for Grade 10.
Efforts to obtain the results have hit a snag,with one official at the Kenya National Examinations Council (Knec) allegedly demanding ten thousand shillings to release the results.
" I called officials from the Kenya National Examinations Council (Knec), and they picked up my call, I explained the complaint and promised to call me and give the way forward. After a day, they call back requesting for Ksh.10,000 for me to be given my results."
According to Abdallah Juma's father, he lost his sight when he was in the fourth grade at Kochek Primary School before being helped by donors to join Koyonzo school. He was hoping to continue his high school studies through sponsorship but has lost four places due to a lack of results .
We visited the school to follow up on the matter, but the head teacher, Mrs Catherine Washiali, sent us to the Matungu education office where the office's management officials had also gone to attend a meeting in Kakamega and were unable to answer our calls 📞 , we also tried contacting officials from the Knec examination council without success.
