Relief for Bungoma students as they risked spending a second night in dining hall

Misikhu Friends Boys High School risked spending the second night in a dining hall of Kisumu Boys High School after their bus was seized.

The students from Bungoma County were stranded in the Lakeside town after their bus was impounded by a local businessman over unpaid dues by the school.

Kisumu Boys high school offered a bus to take them back to their institution after the businessman, Mr. Nilesh Patel, declined to release theirs.

The students and teachers were on a geography study tour in Kisumu on Wednesday when Mr Patel seized the bus saying the school owed him Sh1.6 million.

The driver of the bus is reported to have left the learners at Impala Park and drove to Nilam Garage when the businessman impounded the bus.

Mr. Patel vowed to continue holding the bus until the school settles the debt they owe him, Nation reports.

He said efforts to reach the school over the matter have been futile as the principal, board chairman, and the bursar declined to pick his calls and did not respond to his text messages.

The county education director was, then, in Kisii county but said the matter is now in the court.