About 400 students of Kipsigak boys’ high school in Nandi Central have been sent home following an inferno that destroyed dormitories.
Nandi County Director of Education Harrison Muriuki said forms 2,3 and 4 were asked to go home and that only Form One students remained at the school.
“We have asked them to go home for a week as DCI took over investigations to ascertain if the arson attack was carried out by the students or outsiders,” Muriuki said.
The school suffered an attack a week ago and as police were piecing together evidence of the first attack, another one occurred on Saturday night.
Several students lost their belongings as two fire engines battled the inferno that completely consumed two dormitories at the school.
The students were in their preparatory lessons completing their homework when the fire was started.
“We rule out electricity fault since a similar incident occurred a week ago," a board member who requested not to be named noted.
There has been instability at the extra-county school as a combined force of a section of parents and students at the school press for the transfer of the principal Z.K. Chepchieng.
They accuse the principal of poor results and failing to “assist” the 2023 KCSE candidates to compromise with examination supervisors to allow students to cheat.
The county director said such demands by parents and students were unwarranted and uncalled for.
“Examination cheating cannot be condoned…how do you demand a transfer of principal who decides to give the integrity of the national examinations?” Muriuki noted.
Several schools in Nandi were a subject of KNEC focus after posting stellar results in the 2023 KCSE examinations.
Kipsigak had a mean score of 4.7 in the 2023 KCSE.
