Detectives have arrested four suspects over alleged Examination fraud in the ongoing Kenya Certificate of Secondary Examination (KCSE) exams.
The four were arrested following the arrest of the main suspect Gideon Kibet Tanui Alias Evans Kipruto who is an IT student at Baringo Technical College. At the time of the arrest he had Ksh 10,000 in his MPesa wallet.
“Detectives have arrested four suspects responsible for high level examination fraud, following intelligence reports of sale of examination papers to candidates sitting the ongoing Kenya Certificate of Secondary Schools Examinations (KCSE).
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The detectives attached to the Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) launched the investigations exactly one week ago, and have so far arrested the four who are college students in at least four institutions of higher learning.
The main suspect Gideon Kibet Tanui alias Evans Kipruto, an Information Technology student at Baringo Technical College, was picked from his rented room next to the college on March 15, at around 10:30am, while he was busy administering English paper 2 and Chemistry paper 1, to students of Silibwet and Sitoito secondary schools in Molo, Via his what’s app group with a following of 70 members.
The suspect who was dishing out examination papers at a paltry Sh500 per paper, was also discovered to be a member of two fraudulent examination Telegram groups with over 17,000 followers.
The IT student whose Mpesa account had over Sh10,000 at the time of his arrest, was also operating a separate KCB account at Kabarnet branch, where he immediately transferred the received cash from his Mpesa to avoid reversals.” Said DCI
The arrest of the main suspect led to the arrest of three others including Justice Letting and Kevin Kiprotich Langat who are students of Rongo University who supplied the exams through Telegram and WhatsApp too.
Conversations were also retrieved by detectives between the suspects and some of their customers as they work to analyze all the subscribers in the groups.
According to the suspects, they usually get the papers very early in the morning before supplying them to their customers and teachers.
“Detectives have already zeroed in on the masterminds of this high level fraud, believed to be hiding in Nandi hills. They will not escape. Meanwhile, cyber & digital forensics experts are analyzing all the subscribers in the Whatsapp & Telegrams groups involved in the Examination malpractice for legal action, as documents examination & handwritings sleuths complement their efforts.” Said DCI
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