A candidate refused to appear in the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) exam after a tussle with his father and a principal.
Security officials and education ministry officials are still on the lookout for the 19-year-old girl who left the school premises on Friday.
The girl was lured into the school, where the principal, Mr Kennedy Nyakundi, tried to mentor her during rehearsals on Friday, but was unsuccessful.
Nyamira County Education Director Boniface Ouko claimed that the girl insulted the principal and her father when they tried to persuade her to appear for the exam before leaving the school premises.
He had dropped out of school and the administration was looking for her. When she was finally traced and successfully taken to school, she rebelled against the principal and her parents before walking away ruthlessly,” Mr. Ouko said.
It could not be immediately established where the girl had been since leaving school.
Mr Ouko said the girl was one of the few other cases of absentee candidates who had registered for the national exam but failed to appear in the paper.
As the second day of exams entered Tuesday, two other candidates from Riooga SDA Mixed School who had enrolled were missing. A third was unable to write the exam from his hospital bed at Kisii Teaching and Referral Hospital, where he had been admitted for more than two weeks.
And in St. Kizito Nyansiongo Boys, the whereabouts of one candidate remains unknown.
