Students of Olooseos Girls' secondary were sent on an early half-term break on Tuesday following an incident where they stormed out of the school and vanished in the dark in protest.
The more than 270 girls are alleged to have planned a strike against their new principal Farida Maritim for allegedly denying them a request to put on hair braids, short skirts, and rolled up sweater sleeves.
They are also demanding more meat in their meals asking that this be provided three times a week instead of once a week. They are served meat on Saturdays.
The students, who are mainly from Form Three and Four, are said to have hatched the plan to break out of the school on Monday night at midnight.
The principal, who had earlier warned that her term in the school had come to an end, called the police to beef up security.
"It was really chaotic and I thank God that there were no damages caused by the students. They only broke the fence and walked away," Maritim said.
She said most of the girls who left the school at night were arrested by police in Kiserian town and Birrika shopping centre.
"They are all here and we have decided that they go for half-term break three days earlier than planned."
While addressing parents at the school on Tuesday, Maritim publicly asked for forgiveness for attempting to mentor their children in the right manner.
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Earlier, the school’s board of management members met with the students and the principal in a meeting which was also attended by Kajiado West MP George Sunkuyia, and teachers.
During the meeting, which was closed for parents, Form Three students demanded that they will only be comfortable if all the teachers are ejected from the meeting.
They told the BOM members that they are rejecting their new principal because she has no regard for their deputy principal and the school’s prefects.
The students further told the BoM members that the principal had threatened to cut down their food ratio so as to discipline them so they can work harder.
Sunkuyia dismissed the students’ demands before the parents later at the school and warned parents against supporting acts of hooliganism.
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