Speaking on October 29, Matiang’i said the Ministry of Education was rotten when he took over, and his policies were meant to bring fairness among all the students.

Matiang’i stated that leadership is about solving problems, and that is exactly what he was doing during his tenure and Jogoo House.

“Why do we elect leaders if we can do all these for ourselves.  We elect leaders so that they can represent us, speak for us, and act on our behalf on several issues,” Matiang’i said.

Matiang’i explained that the goal was to ensure all candidates get their genuine grades that reflect their capability.

He stated that exams are a form of test and measurement.

Matiang’i said exams test to determine whether the right skills have been acquired and measure to determine whether a candidate can move to another level.

“It is leaders who should provide and fair and objective environment for us as a country to thrive. The drive at the Ministry of Education when I was there was exactly that. Because we want to create an environment that gives everyone a fair opportunity where people get their genuine grades that they deserve and reflect their genuine capability,” Matiang’i said.

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Matiang’i Recalls  Entire Faculty Failing

He stated that a whole faculty of engineering failed in their first year back in 2015 due to exam cheating.

Matiang’i said the lecturers refused to move the students to the second year since all of them failed the first year exams.

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“Many people are unaware that in 2015, the entire class in the engineering faculty at one of our state universities failed. That is how people were coming to terms with the reality of examination cheating. The entire class in the engineering faculty failed. The professors refused to move those kids to the second year,” he said.

“That was a result of those buffed-up grades; people turn up with an A, and they are selected to the faculty of engineering, and they cannot survive beyond the first year.”

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Students during a past KCSE exam. PHOTO/UGC.