UNEB cancels 2025 PLE results for 66 Hoima City candidates

Sixty-six (66) primary seven candidates who sat their Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE) in 2025 in Hoima City have lost their gate permits to secondary education.

This follows a cancellation of their final results on Friday by the Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) over proven examination malpractices.

The affected candidates include 31 pupils from God’s Light and Bat Stevenson Nursery and Primary schools. The two schools sat from Kitemba primary school – government aided and 35 sat from Mapera Primary school.

The results were cancelled following the March 27th appearance of the affected schools’ school inspectors, invigilators, city education officer and city town clerk before the National Examinations Security Committee for a hearing after it had withheld results of those schools since 25 January when the PLE results were released.

Caroline Nyamahunge, the City Inspector of Schools, said that the UNEB, during the hearing, re-examined the candidates and they failed to perform as compared to last year’s results.

“During the hearing, all learners were subjected to fresh examination writing (of the same examination set of papers sat for last year) and it was clearly proven that there were malpractices in the form of copying among schools,” she said.

“So, cancellation of the results was evidence-based since the candidates could not perform as they did in the same examinations,” Nyamahunge continued.

The inspector, therefore, warned schools against seeking external support to boost the performance of the incompetent learners during national examinations.

“Schools must stop looking for support for their children to pass exams if they are not capable. Such an act clearly defines your weakness in service delivery. It means you are not capable of teaching your learners to pass,” she warned.

Meanwhile, Nyamahunge called upon all schools to cooperate with affected candidates’ to ensure that learners repeat without fail.

Meanwhile, the 66 affected candidates were part of last year’s overall number of over 1,000 students from both private and government-aided primary schools in the city.

Stephen Opige, the deputy head teacher of Mapera Primary school could not be reached for a comment since he appeared busy by not answering our calls.

The itchy situation has caused affected candidates to lose clear guidance to nearby secondary schools, including their first-choice schools across the city.