Ardent Raila Supporter Nuru Okanga Did Not Score 401 Marks in KCPE

Excitement over a screenshot of a result slip doing rounds on social media about ardent Raila Supporter Nuru Okanga scoring 401 marks in the just announced 2023 KCPE results are fallacious.

By the time the slip went viral on social media the Kenya National Examination Council had not released the number for uploading results.

Media reports that Mr Okanga who sat for the exams as an adult had gathered Orange Democratic Movement ODM Party followers at Jacaranda Grounds to celebrate are also false.

Instead by the time he was interviewed by the media, it was established that Mr. Nuru Okanga had not yet accessed his results.

“I am still trying to get my results because Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) is yet to release the statement.”

True to his word, the results checking system was experiencing delays mid-morning on Thursday, after Education CS Ezekiel Machogu released the results.

Usually, parents of the candidates are expected to send the index numbers of their candidates to 40054 at a rate of KES 25 per text.

Parents, however, lamented that the results had been delayed yet the service charges had been deducted.

Several messages that made Nuru Okanga the number one trending topic across almost all social media platforms had estimated that he got between 401 and 405 marks placing him among the top 20 students nationally.

The fake results further indicated that the candidate had scored 84 marks in Maths, 80 in English, and 80 in Kiswahili.

The results further showed that Okanga, who sat for the national examinations at Mumias Muslim Primary School, got 75 marks in science and 82 in Christian Religious Education (CRE).

Machogu, while releasing the results, indicated that the top candidate scored 428 marks out of a possible 500.

Only 8,525 candidates were able to score 400 marks and above with 352,782 students scoring between 300 and 399 marks.

Up until 8pm on Thursday politicians were still sending congratulatory messages to Nuru Okanga and promising to offer him scholarships though he had publicly disowned the 401 score.