The Secretary General of the Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) in the county of Nyamira, Lewis Nyakweba has called strict punishments to be taken up on students who harass and beat their teachers as recently witnessed at Rirumi secondary school in Nyamira district.
According to Lewis, such student should be arrested and charged in a court of law according to the laws of Kenya to serve as an example to other students who harass teachers.
He said that there has always been a hitch of insecurity at the Rirumi secondary school where they for another time learnt that a student in form 4 severally slapped a teacher.
He said that even if the student was offended, there are many right channels he would have followed to report the teacher adding that they are also bound by the laws of this country.
He said that they have demanded from the police and the ministry of information that the said culprit must be arrested and brought to book noting that the same incident has happened in the same school three times in a row and teachers have been requesting to be transferred.
He also added that teachers are now beginning to think that the school is becoming more of a military place where students are trained to fight teachers and threatened that as a union they will be forced to have mass transfers for their teachers if the community and the leaders will not be able to stop the behavior.