Police in Ntinda, a Kampala suburb, have arrested a police officer and a primary school teacher over the recently concluded 2026 Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE), the Daily Monitor reported on Saturday. The two face allegations of forgery, impersonation and uttering false documents. The Daily Monitor's headline says the Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) uncovered a 22-year impersonation racket. The available text gives no further details on that claim.
Jennifer Kalule Musamba, UNEB's Principal Public Relations Officer, named the suspects. Augustine Tukei is a police officer attached to Nateete Police Division. Lydia Mirembe is a teacher in Kisenyi, Kampala.
The arrests are part of a post-exam crackdown by UNEB and security agencies. According to the Daily Monitor, more than 920,833 candidates sat the PLE on November 3 and 4. They wrote the exams at 16,478 centres across the country. Of these, 484,620 were girls and 436,213 were boys. That is a 12.5 percent rise on the 817,998 pupils who sat the exams in 2025.
