Candidate charged with treason after writing plan to kill Uhuru and Duale in KCSE paper 

A KCSE candidate has been arrested after his English paper one on functional skills had him narrating how he’d kill President Uhuru Kenyatta and Garissa Township MP Aden Duale.

The student, who sat his examination at Elimu Bora Secondary School in Mandera town, will be presented to the court on today.

Traced

The message was discovered by Kenya National Examinations Council officials in Nairobi as they were arranging the papers for marking.

They tracked the candidate using his registration number and was immediately arrested.

The magistrate directed that the accused should be taken to the county hospital for a mental and age assessment with the case set to be mentioned on Monday.

Marking of the KCSE exam papers is expected to start on December 7 and end by December 18.