President William Ruto has ordered a probe into the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) following a brief by Education Cabinet Secretary Ezekiel Machogu that 3,000 students who registered for the 2023 KCSE did not sit for the exams. 

President Ruto sought to know why the candidates failed to sit for the national examinations. 

The timeframe when the investigating committee will present its findings to the President was however, not indicated.

Education Cabinet Secretary Ezekiel Machogu on Monday led the release of results of the 2023 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examinations. 

The exercise saw 899,453 candidates sit the form four national exams.