• Reports say 19 girls sneaked out together with others who were sent home for school fees.
• A parent of one of the found girls says he found her on Sunday night in Meru town.
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Three out of 19 Gikumene Girls' Secondary students in Meru who were reported missing are yet to be found.
The 19 are said to have sneaked out of school under unknown circumstances prompting some parents to report at Meru police station.
However, it is unclear whether the girls were sent home for fees or they sneaked out of school. Reports say the 19 girls sneaked out together with others who were sent home for school fees.
North Imenti DCIO James Githinji said in his office on Monday that only a report was made by the area chief that 19 girls from the school were missing. Githinji, however, said the report was contradictory as it indicated the students were sent home for fees and at the same time indicated they sneaked out.
“Nine of the girls claimed to have been missing reported back to school. Seven are at their homes. The whereabouts of three are not known but the principal is trying to contact their parents because the phone numbers provided were wrong or the phones were off,” Githinji said later on the phone.
A guardian who spoke on the phone while bringing back his daughter to school told the Star the girl went missing on Friday but he traced her on Sunday night in Meru town.
He did not reveal where she was or the circumstances surrounding the incident.
Journalists who visited the institution were not allowed in.
When contacted, the school principal said she was handling a similar matter adding she forwarded the matter to the police and the county director of Education.
Edited by R.Wamochie