Due to unpaid allowances during exam marking, a portion of Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examiners have now put down their tools.
On Sunday, December 1, around 800 examiners who were grading the English paper 2 exams at Mary Hills Girls’ High School staged protests to seek compensation.
The examiners, who began marking the national exam three weeks ago, assert that their coordination allowance has not yet been paid by the government.
The examiners have stated that they will not participate in the marking process until the government pays them their dues.
According to the examiners, the government was supposed to pay them a total of Ksh5000 in coordination allowances.
Examiners claim they were not paid allowances despite being required by the government to pay them within five days of starting to mark.
The KCSE 2025 marking is scheduled to run until Monday, December 15.
Last month the Ministry of Education confirmed that the KCSE results would be issued in January 2026.
A total of 996,078 candidates sat the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) exams, marking one of the largest KCSE cohorts in recent years.