Nyabururu students protest after head’s removal over corporal punishment
Students of Nyabururu Girls High School camp outside TSC offices in Kisii on November 3, 2016 demanding the reinstatement of their principal, Emelda Onchenge, who was interdicted following reports that some students sustained serious injuries during punishment carried out by teachers. PHOTO | MAGATI OBEBO | NATION MEDIA GROUP
What you need to know:
- The students started protesting Wednesday night after the ministry of Education interdicted her earlier in the day.
- The officers stormed the school and forced students back to their dormitories.
- Ms Ochenge and two other teachers from the national school have been suspended.
- The interdictions follow a case in which a Form Three student sustained an injury in her wrist when she was caned by a teacher.
Students of Nyabururu Girls High School in Kisii County are protesting the interdiction of their principal, Emelda Onchenge, following reports that some students sustained serious injuries during punishment carried out by teachers.
The students started protesting Wednesday night after the ministry of Education interdicted her earlier in the day.
There was a stand-off between the students and ant-riot police officers who went to the school to quell the protests on Wednesday evening.
The officers stormed the school and forced students back to their dormitories.
The students were chanting slogans against the ministry of Education.
CORPORAL PUNISHMENT
Ms Onchenge and two other teachers from the national school were suspended after a Form Three student sustained an injury in her wrist when she was caned by a teacher.
Last week, Kisii County Director of Education William Sugut confirmed to the Nation that other teachers are still being investigated over the incident.
A source at the school told journalists that officers from the Education ministry visited the school to oversee a handing over of the school’s leadership after Ms Onchenge’s interdiction.
On Thursday morning, the students stormed out of the school and headed to the Teachers Service Commission offices in Kisii demanding that Ms Onchenge be reinstated.
