The Ministry of Health has expelled scores of Kenya Medical Training College (KMTC) students from different campuses across the country after unearthing a major scandal involving fake academic papers.
The students were admitted to the colleges last September using fake Kenya Certificate Secondary Education (KCSE) certificates, seven months later after almost completing their first term in college.
“This is a national scandal. In Garissa, 15 out of 50 students who joined the September class of first years were found with fake papers alongside five others from the Port Reitz campus in Mombasa,” a KMTC source
This prompted the Health ministry in conjunction with the Kenya National Examination Council (Knec) to investigate. KMTC was able to unearth the scam following the dismal performance of the students in their tests.
“We wondered how they managed to get admitted. These are students who might have never stepped in Form Four,” said another source. The majority of the affected students are from North Eastern region.
KMTC chief executive officer Kelly Oluoch, who for the better part of yesterday was holed up in a board meeting over the matter, told Nation in a text he would comment on the issue “later”. His Knec counterpart, Dr David Njeng’ere, neither confirmed nor denied the admissions scandal but referred Nation back to KMTC.
KMTC has 74 campuses countrywide.
