Embu: Parent Bites Teachers, Pupils After She Was Summoned Over Son's Failure To Complete Assignment

• Charity Wanja was summoned to Kirigi Primary and Junior Secondary School after his son failed to complete an assignment
• She stormed the school and attacked people, biting two teachers and two Junior Secondary pupils' fingers
• Wanja was arrested and taken to Kirigi Police Station while the injured were treated at Kianjokoma Level 3 Hospital

Embu - Two teachers and two Junior Secondary School pupils at Kirigi Primary School are receiving treatment after a parent attacked them.

The four victims were taken to Kianjokoma Level 3 Hospital with varying degrees of bite injuries to their fingers.

Citizen Digital reported that the area chief said the school headmistress, Catherine Karimi, along with other teachers, reported that a parent had attacked four people in the school.

The chief said Charity Wanja, the parent, had been summoned to the school after his son failed to complete an assignment they had been given.

Wanja was arrested by police officers from the Kirigi police station in Embu North following the bizarre incident.

Teachers walk out of school

In a related incident, learning at Maraba Secondary School in Nandi County was in May 2022 disrupted after teachers downed their tools.

The teachers marched in protest to the Aldai Sub-county education offices after one of their own was attacked by unruly students.

According to the aggrieved teachers, the said students beat and badly injured the teacher at the school following a confrontation.

Officials from the Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) Nandi county branch stood in solidarity with the teachers.

They demanded that the students implicated in the act be held responsible and punished to serve as an example to their peers.

The teachers revealed that they had severally suffered at the hands of rogue learners; they said a female teacher was also beaten up by students last year.

Students trek in protest

Earlier, students at Tenges Boys High School, Baringo county, staged protests at the Kabarnet sub-county education offices.

The students were decrying their teachers, forcing them to get up at dawn to attend morning lessons.

According to the students, they are made to be up as early as 4am while most of them are still asleep.

They walked a distance of 25 kilometres from their school to the education office in Kabarnet.

Further, the students protested the transfer of their principal, Paul Busienei, accusing the new one of mismanaging the school.