Police have arrested the director of Earnest Nursery and Primary School, located in Kisugu Parish, Makindye Division, for allegedly forging Primary Leaving Examination (PLE) results and issuing them to students in 2020.
The suspect, identified as Wafula Ivan, 34, was reportedly on the run for two years before his arrest this week.
According to police, Wafula is accused of registering pupils for the national exams and later taking them to an unknown location in Busia District, where they sat for fake examinations purported to be from the Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB).
After the alleged examinations, the pupils were returned to Kampala and handed over to their parents, with Wafula issuing them forged results and recommendation letters.
The students later used these fake documents to enroll in various secondary schools.
Trouble began in 2024 when Ebenezer Secondary School, where some of the affected students had been admitted, requested them to present their original PLE result slips for registration with UNEB ahead of their Uganda Certificate of Education (UCE) exams.
When the students returned to Earnest Nursery and Primary School to obtain the documents, Wafula reportedly failed to provide them, prompting a police report.
Kampala Metropolitan Police Spokesperson SSP Patrick Onyango confirmed the arrest, saying investigations revealed that the examinations the candidates sat for were not official PLE papers.
“Police found out that the examinations that candidates sat for were not PLE of 2020. Nanyuma primary school did not receive any candidates for Earnest Nursery and Primary school in Kampala,” Onyango said.
Police later retrieved the forged result slips and recommendation letters and submitted them to UNEB for verification. The examinations body confirmed that the documents were fake.
“The suspect has been in hiding for the past two years but was arrested yesterday. Inquiries into the matter are still ongoing,” SSP Onyango added.
Wafula is currently in police custody as investigations continue. Police say more charges could be preferred against him once the file is forwarded to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).
