KCSE candidate dies in nakuru due to xylene gas use in practical exams

mbona magoha hujifanya all-knowing ivi?..teachers who have been in classrooms for years and are on ground decry this chemical but yeye juu ana degree mingi nyinyi hakuna kitu mnajua

Si Maghoha ni Mbwa tu ya mkubwa

Those chemicals used to give me the scares ile mbaya.
Kwanza during titration. Unavuruta base then una panic thinking ulivuruta acid.

Magoha “as you all know am the only man in Kenya who has had the pleasure of touching president Moi’s private parts. So you must all go back to class. Who are you to intimidate me?”

Like thousands of other students across the country sitting the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examination, Apollo Otieno, 20, was looking forward to the chemistry practical paper last Friday.
But in a tragic incident in the laboratory at St Peter’s Mixed Secondary School in Kajulu, Kisumu county, a chemical exploded on his face, leaving him nursing serious burns.
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“I started the examinations well. In fact, I did three questions before the chemical exploded on my face. I had to struggle throughout the examination,” said Otieno said from his bed at Kombewa sub-county hospital, from where he is doing the remaining papers.
Otieno is one of the students and teachers affected by the chemical known as xylene, which candidates were expected to heat and observe the reaction…
https://www.nation.co.ke/news/education/KCSE-candidate-burnt-as-chemical-explodes-in-lab/2643604-5346880-lykjiez/index.html

masomo inaua

May that student rest in peace. These exams have been turned into military operations. If these guys are allowed they will start taking fingerprints and DNA lubbish!

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RIP is not enough. Magoha should do the right thing and step down for allowing poisonous chemicals to be used in exams.

:smiley: no habla Englis, tu parle Francais?

Mimi nakumbukanga nikisaidia mwalimu huko chem lab kudilute conc HCL. Boss tulikohoa kama watu wamenyongwa na mate after some of the fumes escaped. Usicheze na chemicals bana…

ukifuatilia kuna tender iliiva mapema ya ku supply xylene

The Ministry of Education downplayed reports of injuries and other negative effects of the chemical on students and teachers, with Cabinet Secretary George Magoha saying more dangerous chemicals had been used before.

https://www.nation.co.ke/news/education/KCSE-candidate-burnt-as-chemical-explodes-in-lab/2643604-5346880-lykjiez/index.html

Jesus Christ