The Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) has advised all parents to take the initiative of verifying their children’s results, especially for schools whose results were withheld by the Board.

Annette Kemaali, the Senior Legal Officer at UNEB, said that the verification will help parents know if their children’s results were cancelled, such that the child is taken out of secondary and repeats primary seven.

Kemaali’s communication follows the arrest of Lillian Ayebazibwe, the headteacher of Bubaare Primary School in Bushenyi district, for allegedly issuing falsified results to the Primary Seven candidates who sat for the 2023 PLE examinations from the school.

Kemaali noted that UNEB has plans to contact all the parents to confirm whether their children’s results were released or cancelled.

She advised the parents to make use of the codes provided by telecom companies for verification of their children’s results.

“When you check on 6600 and the results are not showing up, it’s either the results are withheld for examination malpractice or the school has not yet paid, though the issue of non-payment is always resolved in about one week,” Kemaali said.

The headteacher in question reportedly provided testimonials with false results to enable students to progress to Senior One, pending the release of passslips from UNEB.