Police arrest man for sharing fake PLE papers
The Police have arrested a man suspected of sharing fake Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE) papers.
The suspect, who has since been identified as Okwenyi Tom was allegedly using social media through an online platform he created called Elite SST Senior Examiners, where he was sharing fake papers he called fertilisers.
This was revealed by Jennifer Kalule Musamba, the Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) public relations officer, during a media briefing yesterday ahead of the PLE kickstart today, Tuesday, November 7, 2023.
Musamba further revealed that the suspect, who has since been identified as Okwenyi Tom, is a former teacher and is currently working with a multi-national agency.
“One suspect, by the name of Okwenyi Tom, is detained at Kampala Metropolitan Police in respect to the electronic sharing of fake PLE papers. Okwenyi, a former teacher, is currently said to be working with a multi-national agency. He is said to have formed a social media platform called ‘Elite SST Senior Examiners, where he shared the fake papers with over 1500 members of the group. The fake papers are coded ‘Fertilizers’. Our security teams are also tracking another group said to be sharing another set of fake PLE papers coded ‘beans,’” he said.
Musamba said UNEB and the Police are closely monitoring all social media platforms for any other such cases.
The UPE, which are set to kick off today with a briefing of all candidates across the country, will see over 700,000 candidates, according to UNEB, sit for the UPE exams this year. Of these, 52% are female, and 48% are male.
UNEB also revealed that a total of 14,442 PLE examination centres across the country will conduct the exams.
“We have a total of 14,442 PLE examination centers. Of these, 79% are UPE centres, while 21% are non-UPE schools. We believe this is a vote of confidence for the government’s Universal Primary Education Programme, and we would like to applaud the teachers for a job well done in our UPE schools,” Musamba said.
Musamba assured the public that there have been no leakages or prior knowledge of the examination content and also cautioned people who may have intentions to vend false examination leakages.
“The Board would like to assure the public that there has been no reported leakage or prior knowledge of any of the examination papers so far. The forms of malpractice reported revolved around attempts to aid and abette malpractice via external assistance, attempts to destroy examination materials or security envelopes, taking images of the examination papers while candidates are writing papers, and online sharing of the same, as well as electronic sharing of fake papers purported to be UNEB examination papers. A number of these suspects have been arraigned in court, while in other cases, investigations are under way.”
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