As the Uganda National examination board –UNEB prepares to release the Uganda Certificate of Education –UCE results, the examination body has warned headteachers to be aware of fraudsters.
The results will be unveiled virtually today at Midday at the statehouse Nakasero in the presence of Moe Janet Kataha Museveni and Uneb officials.
However, there have been reports of fraudsters fleecing money from headteachers, just hours to the release of the results of the 2020 Uganda Certificate of Education-UCE examination results.
The tricksters are reportedly deceiving headteachers into paying millions to avoid UNEB from withholding their results for examination malpractice.
However,Dan Odongo, the UNEB Executive Secretary, says headteachers and the general public must not be duped by such false propaganda.
Odongo says ”In case results of the school have been withheld due to suspected malpractice, the policy of UNEB is to notify in writing, the affected schools as well as the District Education Officer”
One man has so far been arrested for conning several schools under the pretext that UNEB would withhold their results due to their purported involvement in examination malpractice.
The suspect James Bubumbi, a resident of Kasubi, a Kampala suburb was picked up from Kyegwegwa District after conning several schools across the country.
The CID spokesperson Charles Twine says ‘‘We are going to fully process him and on completion of our investigations we shall charge him with a multiple of crimes, one of them being the impersonation of a public servant, under the anti-corruption act, during the process of conning he succeeded we shall also charge him with obtaining money by false pretence and offences attempt to fraud”.
Meanwhile, the UNEB spokesperson Jeniffer Kalule has asked parents and teachers to avoid gathering children to celebrate their s4 results.
A total of 333,889 candidates registered for the 2020 UCE examinations.
148,135 of the candidates were funded by the government under the Universal Secondary Education (USE) Program.185,754 candidates registered as Non-USE candidates, while 47 candidates registered from Upper Prison Inmates Secondary School, Luzira.
