By Our Reporter
NATIONAL
Four suspects have so far been arrested for allegedly engaging in the ongoing UCE UNEB examinations malpractices.
According to a press statement issued by UNEB’s Principal Public Relations Officer, Jennifer Kalule-Musumba on 18th October, 2023, the four were arrested from Kampala, Nagalama, Mitooma and Kwania in Northern Uganda.
In Nagalama, police arrested the Headmaster of St’ Paul Mukasa S.S in Kalagi for electronic sharing of information purported to be a UNEB Examination paper.
It is alleged that the Head teacher was sharing the information at his home and extorting money from the unsuspecting public. He will be arraigned in court to answer to charges to aiding and abetting exam malpractice.
In Mitooma, a Swahili teacher of Kanyabwanga Secondary School, Dominic Tumusiime has been arrested for sharing an image purported to be an examination paper for Biology practical 2023.
Tumusiime was arrested after he shared the image on the Head Teachers Forum. The Head teacher of the school reported the matter to police and he was arrested.
In Kwania district, Inomo Secondary School head teacher, Joe Robinson Okwir is under custody at Kwania Central Police Station for allegedly tampering with an envelope containing UNEB’s S4 mathematics paper 1 examination papers.
Okwir faces five years in jail or a fine of Shs20,000,000 for the offence of tampering, damaging or destroying an examination material.
Meanwhile in Kampala, police arrested the Chief Invigilator at African Parl Secondary School on suspicion of providing external assistance to the second shift of the Chemistry Examination Paper 3 of Tuesday 17th October 2023.
A handwritten piece of paper with question answers was found in the examination room which the Chief Invigilator was supervising.
