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Percentage of boys and girls sitting for KPSEA in Baringo match

Baringo County has recorded an equal percentage of boys and girls sitting for this year’s Kenya Primary School Examination Assessment (KPSEA) that started on Monday.

Out of the 17,905 grade six candidates sitting for the KPSEA in 758 centres spread across the seven sub-counties within Baringo, 50 percent are boys and 50 percent are girls.

County Commissioner Stephen Sangolo Kutwa during a briefing last week stated that the equivalent number of boys and girls sitting for the KPSEA exam was a clear reflection and determination that parents in the county give equal opportunity to children of both genders.

“As a top education stakeholder in Baringo, I am happy about this growing trend whereby the pastoral Tugen, Pokot and Ilchamus communities who form the majority ethnic groups living in this region are embracing equal education access for both boy and girl child. This is a highly commendable trajectory that should be embraced by all pastoral communities in Kenya,” he said.

Kutwa noted that education is an equalizer in the modern-day society and hence children of both genders must be given their constitutional right to education.

However, a spot check at AIC Visa Oshwal Kabarnet which is the county’s giant public primary school, out of the total 205 candidates who are sitting for KPSEA, 103 are boys while 102 are girls.

The school’s Principal Mr Elijah Bowen who addressed journalists on Monday after conclusion of Mathematics and English exam papers concurred that the number of boys and girls are the same unlike in the past decades whereby there were more girls than boys.

Bowen who expressed happiness said he is thankful to Almighty God that all the school’s 205 candidates who were registered to sit for KPSEA turned up during the first day of the three-day exercise that is ending on Wednesday.

“My candidates are well prepared and they are extremely happy as they do this exam which is providing them an express opportunity to transition to the next level of education at Junior Secondary School,” said the AIC Visa Oshwal primary school Principal.

Mr Bowen noted that his school last year had 188 candidates sitting for KPSEA and he expects the number to possibly rise up to 230 come next year.

By Vincent Miningwo

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