Away from Political matters,  it is best to explore the other bit of Kenya’s developmental growth; the academic sector. The 2012 KCPE results have since been released by the Education minister Mutula Kilonzo at the Mitihani House.

According to the announcement the top counties were as follows: Kirinyaga, Elgeyo-Marakwet, Nandi, Uasin Gishu, Baringo, Makueni, Busia, Kisumu, Tharaka and West Pokot. He also noted that the National examination was a pointer to the performance of the education sector in the country.

He also sated that, the Kenya Examination Act will enable stakeholders to control and contain any irregularities nad improve performance in schools. He then added that this reforms willl ensure quality service delivery.

"I thank the President, the PM and Parliament because nobody stood in my way in achieving goals," he said. " We have policies to help develop talents and improve the assessment in the education sector."

Mr Kilonzo said that students should proceed to secondary schools regardless of their results.

" I will not allow pupils to drop out at class eight. They should go all the way. It's their constitutional right," he said.

The educational minister also said that the curriculum would be reviewed in order to achieve Vision 2030 with major emphasis on technology.

On matters of Gender parity he stated that it had been successfully achieved in most counties.

"Gender parity has been achieved in 36 counties where the ratio of boys to girls was 50:50," he said.

However, West Pokot, Narok, Migori, Garissa, Mandera, Wajir were among 11 counties that had great gender disparity according to Mr Kilonzo.

He also said that 302 students sat their exams from prison while 42 from the hospital. He noted that 88 students had been arrested for involvement in examination irregularities which is an increase from 14 in the previous year.

Finally according to the reports that were released, Three candidates Kinoti Joy Kathure, Mwaura Boniface and Wachira Njomo have topped last year's KCPE exams with 430 marks.

Three schools namely New Light Academy (Nairobi), Makini School Ngong Road (Nairobi) and Gilgil Hills (Nakuru) also topped the rankings.