The scouting for parents who have no taken their children to enrol in form one continues as five parents are arrested in Eldoret.
The parents were charged with infringement of the right of children to education contrary to section 7 (1) of children act of 2011 in the constitution.
The parents are accused of keeping their children out of school between January 3rd and February 16th, 2019, defying Education CS Amina Mohamed’s directive to have all children enrolled in secondary school.
They parents, Stephen Ondia, Grace Munuko, Emily Andisi, Grace Nanjala, and Francis Khisa, all pleaded guilty to charges citing their inability to pay school fees for their children.
“It’s due to poverty and lack of fees that I can’t take my child to school. There is no joy for me to stay with my daughter at home when she is supposed to be in school your
The operation has been made easier after the sector decided to use the NEMIS system to capture the names and letters of all form one students required to report to school.
The NEMIS, however, was cited to be ineffective to parents in the rural areas who do not have a knowledge on online world.