Police camp at Kipsangui Boys as Students attempt to torch the school again!
We are shocked that people can invoke the name of the president when they are ultimately oppressing the community and willingly mismanaging our schools-
Kipsangui Boys students during a meeting with Education stakeholders/Photo James Gitaka
Police officers have been forced to camp at Kipsangui Boys High school in Soy sub County, Uasin Gishu following an attempt by the students to torch the school, weeks after the rowdy students burnt down the school’s main store.
The students and a section of the community have been demanding the immediate transfer of the School’s Principle Richard Tuimur who is accused of mismanaging the institution for the last three years,
“The Institution has had over 400 students today it is only left with a mere 200 of them, we had close to 16 Teachers deployed by the Teacher Service commission but due to the unrest we are only left with four ,The principle has compromised the school board where jointly they have sold cows cut down trees and even demolished other school projects that were ongoing ,”Said Salim Chepsiror
The Community has also decried the move by the principle to fire locally hired staff,
“We used to get tenders from school to supply basic things needed in the day to day running of the institution, that has since changed and new people have been issued the tenders because they are providing kickbacks ,We want the principle Out and investigated by the Ethics and Anti-corruption commission”Said John Bor a resident .
Soy Area member of County Assembly Isack Tamogei Noted that the principle has been invoking the name of the President and other senior government officers intimidating both the Ministry of Education Officials and the community.
“We are shocked that people can invoke the name of the president when they are ultimately oppressing the community and willingly mismanaging the school for their own selfish interests,we urge he relevant government agencies to swing into action and commence investigations over mismanagement of public funds” Opined Tamogei
The Community has also demanded the immediate transfer of the Soy Sub County Education officer Erick Obiri who is alleged to have worked in cohort with the said principal in the running down of the Extra County school reducing it to a village school.
“The Education officer is always spotted visiting the principal’s office every week, none of the pertinent issues raised by the students nor the community have been addressed by the said officer including the outlawed corporal punishment meted on students with fee arrears , he is arrogant ,dismissive and compromised and should therefore be transferred “Said Jackson Barmoiben.
Soy Sub county police boss Henry Zuma has confirmed the attempted torching of the schools dormitory warning that such a move could lead to a serious catastrophe,
‘We are abreast on the latest happenings within the school , we have had stakeholders addressing the complaints to a conclusive end ,we urge all the students and the community to exercise patience”Noted Zuma
Similar Sentiments have been echoed by Soy sub county deputy county commissioner who has assured a speedy solution to the weighty allegations raised.
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