By MN Reporter

Shock gripped over 20 candidates at Regional Institute of Business Management in Migori town after the management failed to register them for ongoing national examinations.

The Kenya National Examination Council exams started from February 1 and are expected to end on February 12 nationally.

According to the candidates who spoke to the press outside the institution compound, they registered and paid for different courses offered at the institute.

“We had paid for exams but were shocked to learn that our names didn’t appear among candidates sitting for knec exams,” Innocent Onyango Ouko said.

He said the school did not forward their money to Knec to register their names for exams.

“Most students affected were undertaking medical laboratory and social work courses. ’We are really frustrated since we had prepared for the exams but then the institution failed to register us for those exams’’ added Ouko.

Edgar Odalo, the College Principal blamed the immediate former colleague for the mess.

Students had paid over Sh160,000 in the former private principal account and Mpesa number.

Odalo claimed that he spoke to the students who were to do the exams and found out that they had paid the fees through the former principal’s bank account and his m-pesa account and they provided receipts to support their claims.

He said those students who channeled their exam fees through the school account have done their exams already.

Odalo said police had taken up the issue and was under their investigation.

Efforts to reach former college Principal Austine Okello for comment were futile as his phone number remained switched off.

While commenting on the same, Tom Otieno Lang’o Regional Director TVET Nyanza South Regions said that it was unfortunate that parents hard-earned money can’t be accounted for in the college.