A 31-year-old man accused of impersonating a Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) candidate at Rohi Boys High School in Nakuru has been released on a KSh100,000 bond after pleading not guilty.
The suspect appeared before Resident Magistrate Atieno Okullo at the Nakuru Law Courts on Thursday, November 5, where he denied the impersonation charge.
The court granted him a bond of KSh100,000, allowing him to be released as investigations and legal proceedings continue.
His release comes a day after his arrest on Wednesday, November 4, following allegations that he had been sitting the ongoing national examinations on behalf of another registered candidate.
According to reports, the suspect, identified only as Nicholas, had already sat five examination papers before detectives arrested him at the private school in Nakuru North.
The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) took over the matter after education officials and officers from the Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) detected the alleged examination malpractice.
Nakuru County Director of Education Victoria Mulili confirmed the arrest, saying the authorities had apprehended the suspect and handed him over to detectives for further investigations.
The registered candidate whose identity the suspect allegedly used had not been traced by the time of his arrest. Authorities were also investigating the relationship between the two, with initial reports indicating that they were acquaintances.
The suspect reportedly holds a diploma in procurement, raising further questions about how he managed to register and sit the secondary school national examinations.
The incident has also exposed wider registration irregularities at Rohi Boys High School, where education officials established that 37 of the 58 candidates registered for the 2026 KCSE examinations were adults aged between 20 and 48.
Officials indicated that the adult candidates should have been registered at special examination centres rather than the regular school examination centre.
The discovery prompted further investigations into the school’s registration procedures and whether other individuals were involved in facilitating the alleged irregularities.
The case comes amid heightened efforts by the government and KNEC to protect the integrity of the 2026 national examinations, which have attracted 1,048,355 candidates across more than 10,000 examination centres countrywide.
Investigations into the alleged impersonation and the circumstances surrounding the school’s candidate registration are ongoing.
