By Emmanuel Eumu.
Mbale: The Director of St. Mary’s Secondary School, Mbale district, Francis Owino is in trouble for allegedly providing students with fabricated Uganda certificate of Education ( UCE) and Uganda Advance certificate of Education (UACE) results.
He was apprehended on Friday following a tip off from a concerned parent who claimed Owino had asked for shillings one million in exchange for genuine results.
Rogers Taitika, the Elgon Region police spokesperson confirmed owino’s arrest, noting that the police are actively searching for the other two school directors involved in the case.
Reportedly, the 2022 UCE and UACE results for the school were withheld by the Uganda National Examination Board (UNEB) due to the schools alleged failure to pay the required examination fees.
When the school faced difficulties in accessing the legitimate results from UNEB, Owino took matters into his own hands and issued students with fake certificates to execute tension at the time.
A total of 85 senior four and 16 senior six candidates from St. Mary’s secondary school sat for the UNEB Examination last year but have since been admitted to various high schools and Tertiary institutions based on fraudulent certificates, jeopardizing the continuations of their academic studies.
Parents and students who were affected have sought the intervention of the ministry of Education and minister Janet Museveni to help resolve the issue and obtain genuine results, allowing the students to proceed with their education.
They expressed frustration, noting that they have invested significant sums of money in trying to obtain the results, but all in vain.
Samuel wayanga, one of the affected parents, said that he visited the examination body on Thursday only to be informed that the schools results had never been released.