Dagoretti banned from winners gala after row over dormitory fire
Karima Girls from Aberdare region in a dance 'Mugunda witu' in the fifth day of the National Drama festivals at Kagumo Teachers Training college in Nyeri on April 11, 2014.Nairobi’s Dagoretti High School was on Sunday banned from this year’s drama festival gala. Photo/JOSEPH KANYI
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Mr Khaemba said the school had emerged among the top in their category with their dance, Mupango, at Bishop Gatimu Ngandu Girls High School, Nyeri, one of the venues for the fete.
Efforts by Kagumo school management to calm the Dagoretti students and make them put out the fire did not bear any fruit.
- The winners from all categories will present their items before President Uhuru Kenyatta and other dignitaries on Wednesday.
Nairobi’s Dagoretti High School was on Sunday banned from this year’s drama festival gala.
According to Kenya Schools and Colleges National Drama Festival executive secretary Sirengo Khaemba, the students lit a bonfire at a Kagumo High School dormitory where they have been staying since the festivals started on April 7.
Mr Khaemba said the school had emerged among the top in their category with their dance, Mupango, at Bishop Gatimu Ngandu Girls High School, Nyeri, one of the venues for the fete.
Efforts by Kagumo school management to calm the Dagoretti students and make them put out the fire did not bear any fruit.
After banning the school from the gala, Mr Khaemba said: “We will take further action after the drama festival.”
THRILLING PERFORMANCES
In the teachers training colleges category, Kibabii Diploma College’s play, Reverberations, won in the play categories. The winners were announced yesterday at Bishop Gatimu Ngandu Girls.
The play is all about betrayal, selfish interests and malice. It pits two step brothers against each other, whose interests are parallel and whose hatred for each other is intense. The two have had a long running battle which has threatened to break the family apart. As their battles continue to disintegrate the family, elders intervene and urge them to live together.
Second position went to Eregi teachers college play, The Principal is Naked.
In the dance category, Murang’a Teachers were the winners, followed by Kaimosi TTC, while Thogoto was third.
In the choral verse category, Thogoto took position one followed by Kagumo.
Kericho TTC were the winners in the solo verse category. Followed by Nairobi’s KTTI.
Egoji TTC were the winners in the oral narrative category.
At the Bishop Gatimu Ngandu Girls venue, the primary schools section witnessed performances by Early Childhood Development (nursery schools) children. The children entertained the audience with thrilling singing games and verses. Singing dances entail what they do best at break time and while playing, only that the ones in the festival are costumed and more choreographed.
The winners in the colleges, universities, primary and secondary schools will stage their performances during the gala Kagumo Teachers College, Nyeri.
According to the event’s chairman, Mr Chokera Kahura, the culmination of the 2014 drama festival will be held at the State Lodge, Sagana, after the winners gala on today and tomorrow.
The winners from all categories will present their items before President Uhuru Kenyatta and other dignitaries on Wednesday.
WINNERS' FETE
Top cream performances
The winners in the colleges, universities, primary and secondary schools will stage their performances during the gala Kagumo Teachers College, Nyeri.
According to the event’s chairman, Mr Chokera Kahura, the culmination of the 2014 drama festival will be held at the State Lodge, Sagana, after the winners gala on today and tomorrow.
President Kenyatta and dignitaries will on Wednesday attend the performances at the State Lodge.
