The Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) has withdrawn its members from a school in Kakamega where parents forcibly ejected the principal.
Union’s branch chairperson Johnston Wabuti said teachers will not work at the school until they are assured of their security.
“The Ministry of Education and that of Interior must tell us why they have not arrested the suspects,” Wabuti said.
He spoke when he led other officials in a peaceful protest march to the Mumias East subcounty commissioner’s office to present a petition.
Union’s national secretary general Akelo Misori also supported the move to withdraw their members in places where security is not guaranteed.
St Gabriel Isongo Secondary School David Wafula and the school’s director of education found himself in unfamiliar territory last Thursday after the parents evicted him from the school.
In the video that had been doing rounds on the internet, Wafula was seen being escorted out of the premises as residents carried leaves and banners.
Parents teamed up with bodaboda operators to forcefully eject the principal accusing him of posting poor results since he took overthrow school.
The school registered 179 candidates but only managed to produce two university entry grades, as the majority scored D- and four Es.
The parents claimed the mean score had been reducing from 5.2 to 4.3 and finally last year it reduced to 2.89.
Education Cabinet Secretary Ezekiel Machogu has since fired a warning shot at parents and anyone who will be found to have frog-marched school heads over the poor performance of their children in national exams.
His remarks come in the wake of incidents where school principals were confronted by angry parents over the dismal performance of their children in the 2023 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education.
“Going forward, the Ministry of Education will treat any invasion to schools to frog-march teachers out of their workstations as acts of crime that will prompt firm and decisive action from law enforcers,” Machogu said.
"Any stakeholder who is aggrieved by the perceived poor performance of schools in national examinations is advised to follow legal means to report to relevant authorities for action."
The incident followed a similar one in Moiben, Uasin Gishu.
