Kakamega Senator Boni Khalwale has warned parents against taking their children back to Mukumu Girls High School.
The Senator, on Thursday, said he went to the said school to assess the situation ahead of the planned readmission of students, early next month.
This follows the school’s closure on April 3rd after an outbreak that claimed the lives of three students and left hundreds of others hospitalized, and in critical condition.
" I am disheartened to report that the situation on the ground has not changed and I wish to advise parents of this great institution not to take their children back to school until the requisite changes are made," he said.
Khalwale was further disheartened when he discovered that the school still relies on a water supply from a local river.
He said no arrangements have been put in place yet to purify the water or offer a cleaner alternative.
The staff responsible for the sad state of affairs in the school, Khalwale said, are still in place.
"The Ministry of Education and the Teachers Service Commission accordingly stand accused of failing to take any single action against the School Principal, BOM, and other officers who, through sheer negligence, deliberate greed or incompetence, are responsible for the current life-threatening mess at Mukumu Girls," he said.
He said parents ought not to take their daughters back unless the issues he highlighted are addressed.
"They did nothing to remedy the situation last year when we lost students under similar unhygienic circumstances, and we are not going to repeat the same mistake this time around," he said.
