Agoro Sare High School dormitory burnt during a parents’ visiting day
Agoro Sare High School dormitory burnt during a parents' visiting day
A dormitory at Agoro Sare High School went up in flames on Saturday, June 6, during a parents’ visiting day, raising concerns over the wave of unrest in schools being witnessed across the country.
The fire broke out on Saturday afternoon, when parents were still within the school compound, causing panic among parents and the entire staff.
No injuries or fatalities were immediately reported in the wake of the incident.
The cause of the fire was not yet established, and it is still unclear whether the parents who were still at the school were asked to take their sons home after the incident.
“We have just come for the visiting day, and we were almost heading out when we witnessed this,” one parent was captured saying.
The incident adds to a series of similar incidents witnessed recently, with over 50 schools closed indefinitely following student unrest.
On the same Saturday, Kisii school students were sent home after a fire incident on Friday night that had razed the school captain’s room.
Kakamega High School also went up in flames on Friday evening, prompting the school administration to send students home.
Other schools that were also closed down include Bungoma school, whose students were sent home on Saturday evening, with some students seen in town as late as 8 pm.
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According to reports, the students were protesting, threatening to burn the school, forcing the school management to send them home immediately.
The incident comes days after a fire incident at Utumishi Girls’ in Gilgil, an incident that left 16 girls dead, with several others with injuries.
The incidents prompted the education ministry to conduct a fresh wave of inspection in boarding schools to ensure administrators adhere to guidelines set by the ministry regarding boarding facilities.
However, stakeholders and lawmakers are urging the ministry to revise the second term school calendar and give the students a break before learning could resume, with many pointing to the increase in unrests to exhaustion.
But the ministry has maintained that the school calendar would not be changed, calling on principals and teachers to develop a dialogue culture between teachers and students to address the issue, which, according to the ministry, is merely a lack of clear communication.
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