While many parents were busy demonstrating online over surge of corruption in Kenya under the hashtag ‘Mr President tumechoka’ in efforts to get the president to do something,some of their students in boarding school were also in agony in relations to deaf ears.
Its been reported the Bungoma Boys High School students staged protest of boycotting classes because their principal was not responding to their lamentations that were seriously affecting them.
The students complained of lack of water in the school. They said bathing, washing their uniforms, cleaning their dorms and classes is a headache.
“The hygiene standards in the school are poor. The pressure of water in the taps is too low,” a student said.
Another student said the toilets are dirty and unfit for use. He said their pleas for more toilets have fallen on deaf ears.
Students said they share beds and the dorms are congested. The infrastructure is in a poor state, they said.
They also said they lack enough learning materials, especially in the library and the laboratory.
The students did not break anything in the school but chanted on the street, saying the principal should go.
Police intervened, but the students declined to go back to class.The headteacher declined to comment on the issue.