A driver and his conductor were yesterday forced to eject a drunk and disorderly teacher out of their vehicle after allegedly abusing other passengers and the driver, demanding to take the steering wheel from the driver and drive the matatu.
The teacher reportedly boarded the vehicle at Kisii town main matatu stage after gulping two bottles of beer to enable him catch up with the matatu that was heading to Magenche, a town at the Kenyenya-Transmara common border of Kisii and Narok Counties respectively.
It is reported that the trouble started when the teacher started vomiting in the vehicle.
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Scared passengers tried to avoid him by keeping social distance from him but under the influence of beer, he started hurling abuses to all of them as he demanded to know why they were running away from him.
It was at that point when the driver and his conductor gently removed him from the vehicle and opted to leave him staggering helplessly along the roadside as he begged for mercy from the passengers to intervene and ask the conductor to allow him back into the vehicle and continue with the journey.
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Luckily, the drunk teacher was allowed into the vehicle after, a middle aged woman intervened, paying his bus fare.
After settling in the vehicle, the shocked teacher thinking that he was in class, started ‘teaching his pupils’.
It prompted the driver and tout to seek the help of the police from Itumbe station who took the teacher to the cells for his safety.
At the time of publishing this story, the fate of the alleged teacher had not been known.
A few people who talked to Education News, revealed that the victim is a habitual alcohol abuser- a primary school teacher from Omogenda zone in South Mugirango Constituency.
They asked public officers to embrace societal ethics inorder to be models to the young generation.
By Enock Okong’o.
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