By Enock Okong’o
Abagusii Council of Elders and Cultural Development, have decried the increasing arsons cases in the region. They said, unless immediate solutions are found, the institutions of learning will turn into places of crime and despondency.
Addressing education stakeholders in Kisii town, the group’s General secretary Gichana Angwenyi said his group might resort to use traditional ways of curbing the crime if the ministry of education failed curb the vice. “ We can use best traditional ways of controlling social evils in society,” he said.
The secretary cited the recent series of burning of dormitories at St John”s. Nyamagwa, Nyakoiba, Nyaimera and Nyangweta secondary schools in the county.
He appealed to the Ministry of Education to discourage the use of sanitizers in schools because the naughty students use the flammable sanitizers to torch their schools. “Since these liquids must be used at schools to control coronavirus disease let the teacher monitor them well,” he advised.
He said that at Nyangweta SDA secondary school a boy used the sanitize to burn a dormitory for unknown reasons.
When Education News contacted Kisii county director of education, Mr Pius Ngoma on the matter, he confirmed that the dormitory was torched and students’ property worthy thousands of shillings was lost. He said, one boy in form four suspected to have torched the domirory was arrested.
He warned principals against admitting students from other schools without knowing their past history.
