[Source: Daily Nation, by Victor Otieno and Dancan Okoth]
Morning classes at Kibuye Mixed Primary School in Kisumu County were yesterday interrupted after pupils stormed out of the institution to protest over the alleged grabbing of their playground.
The learners, in their hundreds, Thursday brought down the iron sheet fence that had been erected around the piece of land by their neighbours, Kisumu Rotary Youth Vocational Training Centre.
According to the school’s Board of Management (BoM) Chairman John Angasa, the playground was allegedly grabbed by the institution on Tuesday and efforts to have it returned have been futile.
The chairman said that at the Land office in Kisumu, details indicate that the piece of land belongs to Kibuye School and that the deputy county commissioner promised to send police officers to stop its grabbing.
Kisumu Rotary Youth Vocational Training Centre Principal Richard Ooko accused teachers at Kibuye of inciting pupils to pull down a wall.
He said the piece of land belongs to the training centre and it was fenced off by a contractor who had been hired by the institution to improve its state.
[Full article: Daily Nation, by Victor Otieno and Dancan Okoth]
