A total of 411 pupils from Gulu City who sat for PLE last year do not know their fates as the Uganda National Examination Board (UNEB) continues to hold the results of five schools from Gulu City.
These 411 candidates are part of 4,565 candidates who last year sat for their Primary Leaving Examination (PLE) from 68 examination centers in Gulu city.
The five affected schools are Pece Pawel Primary School, Lukome (Lawiyeadul) Primary School, Obiya (St. Moritz) Primary School, Wi-aworanga Primary School, and Pakwelo Primary School respectively.
Aber Proscovia, the Gulu City inspector of school today told favor FM that the affected schools are those that have not paid for amendment fees which are fifty thousand shillings for any candidate that had omissions and errors on his particulars such as candidate’s name, index number, age while other school have not paid for that candidates work report that it ten thousand shillings only per school.
According to Aber, the number of affected schools has reduced from 27 schools as of Thursday last week after some schools cleared their pending invoices hence they were given access to download the results for their candidates.
She reveals that for instance, UNEB is demanding a total of one hundred thousand shillings from Wi-Aworanga primary school for correcting the names of their two learners that were wrongly written, the money Aber says the head teacher of the school has paid now they are waiting for the approval from UNEB.
Kijange Denis Oyet, the Deputy head teacher at Favor of God primary school whose candidates sat from Obiya (St. Maritz) Primary school but results are also held at UNEB told this publication that they are receiving a lot of phone calls from the parents who are concerned about the results of their children.
Gulu City has a total of 72 examination centers but last year four centres including; Grace Christian School, Laroo-Boarding Primary School, SOS, and Mercy Village did not register any candidates leaving the city with 68 active examination centres.
The results revealed by Aber Proscovia indicate that out of 4,154 candidates whose results have been successfully downloaded, 874 pupils passed with first grade, 2,196 pupils passed in second grade, 626 got third grades, 281 got fourth grade,125 failed examinations while 52 missed examinations.
Aber however appeals to the parents who have not seen the result of their children to remain calm saying they are in contact with UNEB.
