The Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) has organised a special marking session for the 34 Primary Leaving Examination (PLE) scripts in the Integrated Science subject for learners at Bamure Primary School, Koboko District.
This session, announced by the UNEB spokesperson, Ms Jennifer Kalule, follows the discovery of these scripts in a metallic box in the office of the school’s head teacher on Sunday.
‘UNEB would like to assure the public that the missing PLE scripts of Integrated Science for learners of Bamure Primary School, Koboko District, have been recovered and examiners have been invited for marking and subsequent grading of the candidates,’ Ms Kalule said in a statement released on Tuesday.
Her statement came after the Monitor ran a front-page article titled ‘Forgotten PLE Scripts’, which unearthed the negligence by both UNEB officials and school administration that led to the forgetting of the scripts in the head teacher’s office on November 4, 2025.
Disgruntled parents of the 34 candidates, including 18 boys and 16 girls, joined their children and concerned stakeholders yesterday, storming the school premises seeking an explanation and the fate of their children.
Ms Kalule, in an assurance, said, ‘The Board hereby reassures the parents and candidates of Bamure Primary School, and all concerned stakeholders that the scripts will be marked expeditiously and the candidates graded in time for the selection and placement exercise.’
She added that upon its discovery, the said envelope, for avoidance of doubt, was first handed over to Koboko Central Police Station, who collected it from the school and confirmed that it had not been tampered with, before passing it to UNEB.
‘For quality control procedures, before the release of the results, the Board had established that the scripts of 34 candidates of the said school were missing. The learners were tentatively awarded ‘X’ as a thorough check for the scripts was being conducted at our marking centres, followed by the school,’ Ms. Kalule said.
She added, ‘It is this investigation that led to the discovery of the sealed script envelope, which was found intact in the lockable box for UNEB materials in the office of the Headmaster.’
Police, in a Tuesday statement, said a general Enquiry File has been opened to investigate the circumstances under which the PLE answer scripts envelope for integrated science, random number 819239 of Bamure Primary School, was not submitted for marking, subsequently leading to missing marks for all the 34 pupils.
The statement read, ‘Crime scene was visited, examined, processed, and documented by socco with support from other officers, all under the command of DPC, SP Masereka Michael.’
Some of the implicated officials have already been interrogated, according to the statement.