Uneb spends Shs23b on PLE supervisors
Candidates. Budo Junior Primary Seven candidates during PLE on Monday. PHOTO BY JOSEPH KIGGUNDU
What you need to know:
- Mr Jonathan Ongodia, a senior accountant at Uneb, said: “We paid each of them Shs370, 000 for the two days they supervised the examinations.
The head teacher has to confirm that they were there all through the exercise which is proof for us to pay them their balance.”
The Uganda National Examinations Board (Uneb) has said they spent Shs23b on scouts during the concluded the Primary Leaving Examinations.
The primary national exams that saw 62,000 scouts supervise various centres countrywide reportedly had no major incident of cheating.
Addressing journalists yesterday, Mr Daniel Odongo, the Uneb executive secretary, said: “Conducting national examinations is a very expensive exercise. You need supervisors, invigilators, security personnel, transport for both the examinations and staff, feeding, accommodation, packing materials for the examinations, you have to pay the content generators.”
He added that even after the exercise, they hire security personal and transport to return the answer sheets to Uneb and the marking centres after which they need storage space to store the answer sheets.
Mr Odongo revealed that they also spent Shs500 million per year on hiring a warehouse to store the papers.
He added that previously they were burning answer sheets but lately they shred the papers and sell them to toilet paper and egg trays manufacturers.
Yesterday, Uneb launched the construction of storage facilities for the answer sheets within its premises in Kyambogo.
As the ground breaking exercise was taking place, several scouts were seen lining up with their examination report forms which included the sitting arrangement of the candidates and the photograph albums of the candidates who sat the examinations.
Mr Jonathan Ongodia, a senior accountant at Uneb, said: “We paid each of them Shs370, 000 for the two days they supervised the examinations.
The head teacher has to confirm that they were there all through the exercise which is proof for us to pay them their balance.”
Mr Odong also revealed that they deployed about 12,000 people to supervise O-Level and A-Level examinations because the schools are fewer.
