The Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) has finally released the results for Lugulu Girls’ High School, which had been withheld when Education Cabinet Secretary Julius Migos Ogamba officially announced the 2024 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) results.
The withholding of the results had caused anxiety among students and parents, but on Friday evening, January 17, they breathed a sigh of relief after KNEC allowed the school to download the results.
Lugulu Girls’ shines
The school has posted impressive results, with 99.41 percent of the students transitioning to the university after scoring C+ and above.
A total of 676 candidates sat for KCSE at Lugulu Girls’, and out of these, 672 scored a grade of C+ and above.
The school recorded 13 A plains, 93 A-, 191+, 232 B, 118 B-, 25 C+, one C plain, one C-, and two D+, posting a school min grade of 9.3417.
Principal’s reaction
The school’s Chief Principal Dinah Cheruiyot, while addressing the media on Saturday, January 18, 2024, stated that the thought of so many girls missing their results had caused them sleepless nights.
She thanked God for the results and promised to continue posting impressive results in national examinations.
“This morning, we want to say we thank God. We have waited for our results for a very long time, and today we thank God after waiting for the results for almost two weeks. Yesterday we had our results, and we have done very well, na tunashukuru Mungu.
“The thought of so many girls missing their results gave us sleepless nights, but as a school that has been performing very well, we have been sending over 99 percent of students transitioning to university, and we are sure we will continue sending this huge number. We are a school with so many students from across the country, both highly performing in primary and average,” she stated.
KNEC also withheld the results of four other schools when CS Ogamba officially announced them on Thursday, January 9, 2024.
Didmus Barasa’s take
Kimilili Constituency Member of Parliament (MP) Didmus Barasa had voiced his concerns after KNEC withheld the results for Lugulu Girls’ High School in Bungoma County.
Speaking in an undated video shared via his official X account on Saturday, January 11, 2025, Barasa said that he had reached out to the Education CS over the Lugulu Girls’ results.
The lawmaker stated that CS Ogamba had assured him that the results had not been rejected and were undergoing a verification process.
According to Barasa, the Lugulu Girls’ candidates performed so well that the examination council and teachers marking the exams were left astonished, forcing them to withhold the results for verification in a process akin to the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) in football terms.
“Hii maneno ya Lugulu Girls’, wanafunzi wa Lugulu Girls’ High School, it is for the first time in the history of that school that ndio matokeo ya wanafunzi imekuwa withheld. Mimi nimeongea na waziri ambaye anahusika na mambo ya elimu, na amenihakikishia kwamba hayo matokeo hayajakuwa rejected; imekuwa withheld. There is a difference between withholding and rejecting the results. The results were not nullified, they were withheld. Vile walifanya mtihani ni kama hao watoto walipita sana mpaka wale walikuwa wanasahihisha wakasema wafanyiwe verification.
“The results are undergoing a verification process. Wale ambao huwa mnaangalia mpira, kama referee hajaona kama bao imeingia vizuri ama kama pengine mtu ameshika mkono, penalty pale kwa box na referee hajaona vizuri, anaenda kuangalia kwa kitu inaitwa VAR. Kwa hivyo, ile matokeo ya Lugulu watoto walipita sana, mpaka wale walimu wakashikwa na wasiwasi, wakaenda kuangalia kwa kompyuta in a process that is akin to VAR in football. But I want to assure the people of Bungoma that the results of Lugulu Girls’ can only be delayed for a few days and a few weeks, but eventually they will have their results,” Barasa said.
Social media posts
KNEC had earlier on distanced itself from widely circulated social media posts claiming that Lugulu Girls’ High School’s withheld KCSE results had been released.
On Wednesday, January 15, 2025, social media platforms lit up with reports that the prestigious Bungoma-based national school had received its results, boasting an impressive mean grade of 10.2265 and a 100 per cent transition rate to higher learning institutions.
However, KNEC quickly moved to dispel the claims, only for the official provisional results to be released two days later.
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