Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) officials has put three suspects behind bars for theft of government school textbooks on Friday.
The North Coast officers stormed a private school on the morning of Friday, March 8, after receiving information that learning material meant for public schools were being used in several private schools within Malindi sub-county, Kilifi county.
North Coast EACC director, Gichangi Njeru, said detectives learnt that Mary’s Junior School in Muyeye was using government books yet it was a private school. “Today, we conducted a search in the school and recovered several dozens of government textbooks and several others bearing stamps of some public schools within Kilifi county.
We also conducted a search in home compound and office and recovered many more books belonging to public schools,” said Gichangi.
Three suspects were arrested and taken to the EACC offices in Kilifi for interrogation. According to detectives, the books in question were being sold to private schools by some teachers who were well known.
“The suspects arrested were either covering the stolen books or re-stamping them with the rubber stamp of the particular private schools they were being taken to so as to hide the identity,” said one of the detectives. Gichangi called upon members of the public to report any kind of suspicious business being conducted within schools.