The Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC) has now assured that the 31,164 examiners have commenced receiving their dues.
KNEC Chief Executive Officer (CEO), David Njengere has said that National Treasury has released Ksh2 billion to facilitate payment of all 2022 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examiners and other contracted officials.
Also paid are at least 89,910 KCSE invigilators and supervisors.
“We have paid everything as the President and Education Cabinet Secretary had promised. Treasury gave us the money, Sh2 billion, that was remaining to allow us to meet the balance,” Njengere said.
“Please note it is a balance because we give them an advance as they are leaving the marking centres and this balance is what we have cleared. We have also paid all supervisors and invigilators and every other person who participated in the exercise including security officers,” he explained.
The amount a teacher receives depends on the number of scripts a person marks.
“We have also paid all monies due to security officers, drivers, clerks and sub County exams officers; this is a total of 16,585 officers. This is besides the 89,910 KCSE supervisors and invigilators,” he said.
The 2022 KCSE was marked in 35 centres.
The examiners have however been urging the Government to revise upwards the marking rates.
In January, some Christian Religious Education Paper I examiners attempted to disrupt the exercise, claiming they were unhappy with the marking regime and even demanded for higher rates.
“Since the issue of the examiner’s marking fee is an individual contract, and agreed to before reporting to a centre, the Council found it impossible to find an extra budget to revise the rates midway,” explained KNEC Chairperson Prof Julius Nyabundi.
Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) had warned a few days ago that teachers would disrupt the national exams set for October and November if their exam dues are not settled.
