Dr. Asuman Lukwago, Secretary, Education Service Commission has castigated Ignatius Koomu, LCV of Nakaseke district, for ambushing P7 Teachers and subjecting them to an irregular assessment test following poor performance in the 2023 PLE results, saying rules of any exam require candidates to be alerted, which could explain why some teachers scored as low as 27% in the test.
He made the remarks while appearing before COSASE, where Hon Martin Muzaale reresenting Buzaaya County in parliament asked Dr. Lukwago to explain what lessons the Commission learnt from the Nakaseke debacle since the Commission is mandated with appointing, developing, maintaining and improving the quality of all personnel in the education service. 
Dr. Lukwago argued that the results from the mock exams in Nakaseke can’t be relied on to determine the quality of teachers in Ugandan schools arguing, “The outcome of the examination aren’t reliable until we understand the standards that were used because examinations are set by people who are qualified to set them.
So if you set examinations just because you want to prove, you can set difficult examinations. The rules of the examinations is that you have to alert the candidate.”
“To the Commission, this was irregular, we align ourselves with what the Ministry of Education stated but our responsibility in terms of human resource for Education sector relates to secondary education and also tertiary institution, but we have a supervisory role on primary education system and this is where our mandate stops somehow. And from the professional side, these weren’t interviews but class room exams which were irregular and this was unusual and out of the normal process,” said Lukwago.
In March 2024, Ignatius Koomu Kiwanuka, the LCV of Nakaseke district, subjected P7 Teachers to assessment tests following poor performance in the 2023 PLE results and upon the release of the test results, Mathematics was the worst-performed subject, with seven out of nine teachers tested failing to secure 50 percent of the mark and the poorest-performing teacher secured 27% of the mark, while the best scored 92%.
