SUPREME COURT overturns Court of Appeal ruling allowing Muslim students to wear hijabs in school after appeal by Methodist Church.
In a triumph for the Methodist Church of Kenya, the court in a majority decision on Thursday said the ruling by the Appellate court was against the school uniform policy.
The judges ruled that every school has a right to determine its rules.
The church, which sponsors St. Paul’s Kiwanjani Secondary School in Isiolo, filed the case after parents contested the suspension of three students for wearing hijabs in school.
A parent had complained about the suspension but the High Court sided with the school.
Following an appeal, the Appellate judges allowed the students to wear hijabs, a ruling the church appealed at the highest court.