Machakos secondary schools have been forced to close indefinitely due to student agitation.
Principals of many public secondary schools in Machakos County told the Star that the schools have been closed indefinitely as a result of student discontent.
On Monday morning, the students will be allowed to return home.
“Given the reported disturbance, I’m releasing my students tomorrow owing to security concerns. Parents are calling for the release of their children as well,” the principal of the school called the Star on Sunday night.
One of the schools in the Kathiani subcounty that has been closed indefinitely is Mitaboni ABC Girls.
The Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (Kuppet) is stepping up its strike at the same time as the closure.
Kuppet, Machakos branch secretary general Musembi Katuku announced the closure of the schools and said that tomorrow, children from a number of the schools will return home.
“There are no teachers in these schools, so there is no teaching going on,” Katuku said to the Star on Sunday night.
At an early Sunday National Governing Council meeting, Kuppet officials announced that the countrywide walkout is still ongoing.
They insisted that there would be no instruction in any of the nation’s schools, and they urged parents to pick up their kids from their individual institutions.
“That the schools will not run and that they currently do not run.” The instructors will stay at home for the upcoming week and beyond, according to Kuppet Secretary General Akelo Misori.
The country has been shaken by protests during the first week of the third school term, as Kuppet-affiliated teachers have voiced their frustrations against their employer, the Teachers Service Commission.
On Sunday night, there were rumors of tension at Machakos High School as pupils asked to be let out so they could go home.
“They want to go home, Ni Kubaya. At the assembly, they will be addressed,” an educator at the school stated.
The school’s tutor said that the restless pupils had been instructed to head back to their dorms.
There were rumors that some of the tutors who lived on the school grounds and who had intervened to help the pupils become calm fled for their lives when the kids turned aggressive.
By the time of press time, the institution was still very tense.
Days before, several Kuppet members allegedly attacked several county schools to evict teachers they suspected were working while their colleagues carried on with the protests.
Members of Kuppet have sworn to shut down education in every school in the nation until their demands are met.
Machakos secondary schools have been forced to close indefinitely due to student agitation.
