Panganai Zimhuno allegedly lost the papers at the Renkini long distance bus terminus on Friday last week while travelling from Bulawayo to the school. However according to well-placed sources at the Ministry of Education, Sports, Arts and Culture provincial offices in Bulawayo, Zimhuno lost the examination papers at a local lodge where he had booked with a lady of the night.
“What really happened is that after collecting the examinations papers from Zimsec, Zimhuno booked at a local lodge with a prostitute. He left the papers which were sealed in khaki paper at the lodge’s reception and the woman noticed this,” said a source at the provincial education offices.
The source said the following morning, the unidentified woman demanded her dues from Zimhuno but the headmaster allegedly reneged on his promise. Instead, he gave her half of the amount which they had earlier agreed on.
After that, the source said the woman left the room in a huff, leaving Zimhuno fast asleep. She reportedly went to the lodge’s reception and took the examination papers as compensation for the shortfall.
“When the headmaster woke up and became sober he went to reception and was told that the examination papers had been taken by the woman.
After realizing the gravity of his negligence, he cooked up the version that the papers were lost in a public transport” said another source. The Zimbabwe School Examination Council (Zimsec) has already cancelled the affected papers and will have to reset the examinations at a cost of $850 000.
The cancelled papers are English Language (Paper 1 and 2, Mathematics non-calculator version (Paper 1 and 2), Geography (paper 1 and 2), Integrated Science (Paper 1,2and 3) Commerce (Paper 1 and 2) and Ndebele (Paper 1 and 2).
The questions papers are reportedly being sold in the streets at $5 per paper.
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