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A madrasa teacher has been arraigned in court for allegedly beating to death a Nine-year-old girl for failing to recite a verse from the Quran.
Classmates of the deceased who testified against the teacher recounted how the accused teacher got agitated before hitting the pupil on the head and caused her death.
They were testifying in a case where Sheikh Salim Abdul Rajab 31, is alleged to have murdered Deka Ibrahim on September 13, 2015 at Al Karim Mosque located at Makaburini Estate, Kakamega Township.
Abdi Ibrahim, a brother to the deceased who were together at the Mosque said that their teacher posed a verse specifically for Deka to recite to the rest of the class.
Unfortunately, she was unable to recite a single word and was beaten severely on her head using a plastic code in front of her classmates.
“The Madrasa teacher descended on my sister with a plastic code which he used to assaulted her with. She cried uncontrollably but the teacher continued to beat her despite her cries for help. Since we were also students, we just watched her helplessly,” said Ibrahim.
