Education officials in South Sudan’s Maridi State have postponed mock examinations scheduled for this month until further notice following a leakage in the examinations for both primary and secondary schools.
Joseph Leya Danima, the state minister of education, gender, child and social welfare said the exams which are supposed to prepare candidates for final exams in November were leaked by the state examination council within the education ministry.
Danima strongly condemned the action saying, “This act is categorized as a criminal act and at the same time that act alone undermines our efforts of ensuring that our candidates of schools within Maridi can excel and improve in their performances even to get the first 10 positions at the national level.”
“The magnitude of the whole practice is not all that significant to affect our primary objective of preparing our candidates,” he stressed.
Last week a primary school head teacher was arrested and released yesterday, Monday accused of buying the leaked exam papers for candidates of his school.
For his part, the state director of examinations Fernando Tombe blamed the school administrations for attempting to buy the leaked examinations.
“You headmaster of a school why do you go and buy the examination from somebody else, he is not even a teacher. That is not good,” he warned.