UPDATE: North Road P/S Teacher among 10 Arrested In Kibuku over PLE Malpractice

By Weswa Ronnie

KIBUKU

Police has given the identities of teachers who were arrested on Thursday, 6^th November, 2024 for helping pupils answer PLE questions at Kyakonye Islamic Primary School in Kibuku Town Council.

Speaking to this Publication today, 8^th November, 2024, Moses Mwanga Kitiyo, the Bukedi North Regional Police Commander named the suspects as Namugwere Josephine Head teacher Kyankonye Muslim primary school, Kaire Juliet teacher at Kiryolo primary school, Katengeke Lovisa teacher at Kataka primary school.

Others are; Nandi Lazia, teacher at Nankodo Islamic primary school, Naikomba Christine, teacher at Lwatama primary school, Kamikaze Suzan, teacher at Dodoi primary school, and Kaweru Robert teacher at Bugiri primary school.

Also arrested are Liiki Wilberforce, a teacher at Lwatama primary school, Mudenya John, a teacher at Kiryolo primary school, and Mauso Job, a teacher at North Road primary school in Mbale City.

Seven teachers including investigators were yesterday detained at Kibuku Central Police Station on allegations of exam malpractice during the Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE) at Kyakonye Islamic Primary School in Kibuku Town Council, Kibuku District.

Mwanga adds that these teachers were arrested on orders of the deputy resident district commissioner Mulindwa Kagugube

RPC says that the monitoring team, including Kagugube, an inspector, and an exam supervisor, discovered the malpractice when they found multiple teachers inside classrooms, allegedly answering exam questions for students.

He says that they tried to run after being discovered but police managed to net all of them and are currently being detained at Kibuku Central police station.

Nabirye Latisha Inspector, the Kibuku District Inspector of Schools says that the teachers and Invigilators connived to carry out the malpractice.

She says that some of those teachers had accompanied their pupils from their respective schools although they have denied that they were not involving in any malpractice but police got pupils with write ups.

The inspector says that after asking pupils, they alleged that it was their teachers who gave them to copy the write ups.

Kibuku Deputy resident district commissioner, Mulindwa Kagugube condemned the incident saying this brings down education standards in the district.

(ED- We had earlier reported the arrest of 30 teachers, a figure the RPC has corrected confirming they were 10)