A primary school head teacher in Mandera East was Tuesday arrested over an ongoing investigation into how three candidates sitting for Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) were found in possession of mobile phones.
Mandera County Criminal Investigations boss Bernadict Kigen said the three phones were confiscated by a supervisor at Tawakal Primary School on the outskirts of Mandera town.
“We are interrogating a center manager to know how these candidates ended up with mobile phones in the examination room,” Kigen said.
Kigen said the police are looking for another centre manager suspected to be behind the examination leakage in Mandera East.
This was after police established whatever was shared in these phones came from a school in the area.
A police officer was injured at Tawakal Primary School after unknown persons halted stones in the school.
Police suspect he was attacked by people who wanted to sneak in mobile phones but were being blocked.
The three candidates were allowed to continue with the Tuesday morning examinations as the investigations go on.
Officials are on alert to avert any form of exam leakage in the ongoing exercise in the country.
Multi agency teams are monitoring the exercise.
