The Uganda National Examination Board (UNEB) has with immediate effect suspended the transportation of UNEB Examinations on motorcycles commonly known as Bodabodas to the respective sitting centers, as one of the measures to reduce examination malpractices.
A total of 798,742 pupils will be writing the 2024 Primary Leaving Examinations-PLE from 14,967 sitting centers starting on November 4th 2024 with the briefing, and sit for the papers on 5th and 6th November.
Addressing Local Government leaders and those in charge of the PLE in all districts during the opening of a two-day annual seminar organized by UNEB to reflect on 2023 PLE Exams and way forward for 2024 Exams, in Kampala, the UNEB Executive Director Dan Odongo revealed that those who transport examinations on Bodabodas have been discovered as some of those who leak the papers as they make stopovers like the case was in Butambala district in 2023.
Odongo said working on such a precedent; UNEB has decided to ban transportation of exams on Bodabodas but also criticized the Judiciary for delaying the trial of those caught engaging in examination malpractices which has fueled the vice.
Meanwhile, Ismail Mulindwa, the Director of Basic and Secondary Education in the Ministry of Education and Sports, who represented the Education Minister at the seminar as the chief guest, disclosed that Government is committed to dealing with any kind of examination malpractice and will name and shame any school involved in the vice.
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By Charles Katabalwa
18th Sept 2024
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