Officials from the Uganda National Examinations Board-UNEB have linked five candidates at St Francis Secondary School in Kawempe Division to examination malpractice.
The candidates doing Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education examinations(UACE) were picked up by police on Tuesday and arrested at Kawempe police after pure mathematics and European history papers.
According to the police spokesperson for Kampala metropolitan area Patrick Onyango, three of the candidates were arrested for impersonation while two others were found with foreign material in the examination room.
Annet Kemaali, UNEB Legal Officer says the candidates will be presented before the courts of law once investigations are complete. She however says they will continue with examinations as investigations into the allegations continue.
This is the second time that the school is being implicated in acts of examination malpractice.
During the Uganda Certificate Examinations (UCE), another candidate was prosecuted for impersonation. Rebecca Munyezi, 30, hired one Asuman Kidawuli to write her UNEB exams at a fee of 2.5 million shillings. She was later found guilty and fined 200,000 shillings.
Also, court fined 4.8 million shillings to a guardian of a Senior four candidate nabbed in examination malpractice.
Nalwadda Amina, an Aunt to Namuwonge Hudah, a candidate of Kawempe Standard S.S.was accused of hiring a senior three student at Janan Luwum secondary school in Kabalagala Makindye Division to do the final exams for her.
On Monday, a Uneb official spotted Kawempe Division in Kampala as a red-flag zone for examination cheating and other malpractices.
This is a hot-spot, as evidenced by the prior exams (UCE and PLE). We must keep an eye out for even the smallest details,” the official said.
A total of 97,890 students have been registered to sit for the exams compared to 98,392 who sat for the same examinations in 2020.
The examinations that started on Monday and end on December 9.