UNEB RELEASES WITHHELD MASINDI PLE RESULTS

By Innocent Atuganyira
MASINDI

The Uganda National Examination Board has released the withheld Primary Leaving Examinations {PLE} results for two schools in Masindi district after clearing balance payment of 60,000 shillings.

UNEB withheld the results for Walyoba brilliant primary school and Asaba school both in Masindi for failing to pay a balance of

Sh50,000 and sh10.000 respectively on their paid UNEB examination fees.

Mr. Benerd Twesige the headteacher Asaba primary school told the our reporter that, UNEB had withheld the school PLE examination results for their Twenty-Seven candidates

because the school was being demanded Ten thousand shillings as part of UNEB examination fees.

“We immediately went to UNEB and cleared ten thousand shillings. That’s why they have released our results now and our students can access them on phones now” Mr. Twesige said.

The Uganda national examination board further released exams for nineteen candidates of Walyoba Brilliant primary school Masindi which had been withheld after being demanded Fifty thousand shillings99(sh50,0000 on UNEB examination fees.

Mr. Davis Musinguzi a parent in Masindi said Uganda’s national examination board should have different ways of demanding their available balances from schools without withholding exams which worries parents.

” For us, we don’t need to know who UNEB is demanding schools, for us we are parents who do our work of paying fees and others, UNEB should create measures of demanding their balances internally without affecting us as parents”

Mr. Musinguzi said. parents are demanding an explanation from the administration.

Mr. Ngobi Andrew a teacher at King’s primary school wants Uneb to remind schools before exams release to avoid humiliation through delayed results.

” It’s unfair to withhold results and hurt learners and their parents yet this is an issue between schools and Uneb,” Mr. Ngobi said.

The executive director of Uganda National Examination Board (UNEB) Mr. Daniel Odong said Schools must follow Uneb’S guidelines on payment to avoid such inconvenience.