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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Twelve pupils were picked up on Monday from Bugolosese Primary School in Buikwe district for alleged impersonation in the Primary Leaving Examinations-PLE.
The twelve suspects were reportedly sitting the mathematics examination for some candidates.
Jennifer Kalulu Musamba, the Public Relations Officer Uganda National Examination Board- UNEB, says “Scouts became suspicious after they noticed that the people sitting for the examinations were not the ones that appear on the examination register. They were tipped off when one of them wrote a name that was not on the register and crossed it to write one that appears.”
The suspects are locked up at Nyenga police station as investigations are ongoing to determine how they were able to access the school and where they are from. Polly Namaye, the Deputy Police Spokesperson Uganda Police Force, says the 12 suspects are 14 and 15 years of age.
“One of them doesn’t come from Buikwe but came from Wakiso district,” she said. According to Namaye, police have been able to establish that four of the suspects neither study nor live in Buikwe district. They hail from Wakiso, Lugazi, Mukono and Mayuge districts.
A total of 695,793 candidates are sitting PLE at 13,475 examination centers countrywide.
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