Parliamentary committee summons suspended Maneb officers: MSCE exam leakage attributed to security lapses
The 2020 Malawi Schools Certificate of Education (MSCE) examination leaked due to security lapses as only six Malawi Police officers were engaged instead of the required 20, the Malawi National Examinations Board (MANEB) has said.
The Board on Tuesday conceded that there was weak security checks at MANEB offices, indicating that there were no physical checks.
This was disclosed when the Board led by its chairperson Alfred Mtenje appeared before the Parliamentary Committee on Education.
The Committee summoned MANEB officials to understand the reasons behind the leakage of the 2020 MSCE examination papers and possible short term and long-term measures put in place to address the examination leakage.
The Parliamentary Committee also wanted to appreciate stages of examination processes from formulation to marking and announcement of results
MANEB also took time to brief the Committee on the state of preparedness regarding the re-sitting of the 2020 MSCE examination, which started on Tuesday, January 5.
Mtenje claimed that suspended MANEB chief executive director, Gerald Chiunda directed that there should be only six police officers instead of 20 which was the required number.
He said this was one of the factors that led to the massive leakage of examination papers as there was laxity in security, resulting in the cancellation of the examination.
Mtenje also admitted that CCTV cameras at Maneb were not working properly and could not capture movements and happenings at the MANEB as such the Board could not trace the culprits.
He told the Committee that those behind the leakage of the 2020 MSCE examination knew that CCTV cameras could not capture them and access to the storeroom was given to more than one person.
Mtenje also disclosed that officers believed to have a hand in the leakage of the question papers have been summoned for disciplinary hearing on 26 January.
However, the Committee queried why the suspended officers were not part of the meeting.
According to them, the suspended Officers, including Chiunda were better placed to explain what led to the leakage of the examination.
Members of the Committee have since demanded the suspended Officers to appear before them on Wednesday, January 6 2021.
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Chiunda was mistreated and Ntenje was acting on instruction from the president and that defeats natural justice. I said it before that Chakweara will be the worst dictator.
CCTVs not checked prior commencing of the exam.
Just like AIRCARGO manipulating their CCTV and staff steal stuff sent from abroad and they tel customers that they know nothing when infact the customer notices some doggy activities on their boxes.
nchito zolembana pacibale.
milandu siiola.
moti samadziwa yet that is a more reliable source of information that CCTV can catch.
IDIOTS.
Let him be revamped . stupid bastard
Do we really learn from other peoples mistake? MEC during the elections case chose to send one Alufandika as if he was MEC chair he was rebuffed big time. Today a while professor wants to play CEO Chiunda my foot where you running the show or it’s your hearsay. That’s why there khave sent you back nonsense is nonsense even when apoken by a professor
It is not possible not to leak examinations if people have no consciousness in their heads. Even if you can deploy the whole army and put a thousand cameras at MANEB, examinations can still leak if handlers and item setters have no consciousnesses because Examinations are handled by so many people. So please don’t victimise Chiunda et al. for the offences which they did not commit. Blame it on moral decadence.
January wavuta kenako mitana alonda ndithu
Foseki
The ploblem of employees who are not trusted.
People can send information via different methods or media. There some people at all government departments who are behind the sabotage of Tonse government.
Just closes the whole nonsense maneb. Print them in Uk as during Dr Kamuzu Banda. They must be writing cambridge now up to form 6. They must go all of them. We don’t need Maneb now. We don’t want to be producing disfunction citizens. Osathyakuka. A choke tikuti. Mavoti mumaprintitsa bwanji kunja. Anzanthu analeka kale kale za ma O levels zotsalirira. Kutaya nthawi kuti mizikambirana zopanda mutu.
koma ndipo in!! maeso olemba ndi pensulo kapena chekeni.mxiiii