The rate at which some creditors are demanding for their payments can cause permanent damage.
A school in Bungoma on Wednesday subjected students to unnecessary torture after failing to pay garage debt.
The students and teachers from Misikhu Friends Boys High School in Bungoma were stranded in Kisumu for more than 24 hours after a garage owner impounded their bus over an alleged Sh1.6 million debt.
The 58 students and their four teachers were left in shock after the management of Nilam Garage struck while they were on a study tour in Kisumu on Wednesday.
The boys spent the night at a dining hall at Kisumu Boys while their teachers looked for accommodation elsewhere in the town.
The students and their teachers were still stranded in town by 3 pm yesterday as the school made arrangements to ferry them back to school after the garage owner declined to release the bus until he was paid in full.
Kisumu Boys High School Principal, Mr Peter Obwogo said he allowed the students to use the Dining Hall after he was informed of their predicament.
He said they received the students at night and did all they could to offer them makeshift accommodation at the Dining Hall.
The students drawn from form one to four had their fate of not travelling back sealed after the driver of the school bus left them at The Impala Park at 3 pm to go to their usual garage to repair ‘something’ in the vehicle only for the vehicle to be detained.
“We waited, but after being informed that the bus was not coming, we were advised to trek to town centre at around 7:30 pm where arrangements were made to have us accommodated.” Said one of the students.
Misikhu Friends School Principal Maurice Otunga accused the Garage owner, Mr Nilesh Patel of being inhuman.
Mr Patel admitted detaining the vehicle over the debt but said he was not aware the students were stranded.
He told the Daily Active that he was willing to have the students and their teachers driven back to the school in another vehicle as he detained the bus.
He accused the school of not communicating with him to arrange how the debt will be recovered since the vehicle was repaired in 2017.