Kirimon Primary School in Samburu West turned into a battlefield on June 19, 2017 as pupils attacked their teachers. [Photo/Daily Nation]A dark cloud fell on teachers at Kirimon Primary School, Samburu-Laikipia border on Monday, after 12 boys attacked and injured them.
According to eye witnesses, the class six boys descended on the teachers with clubs and machetes protesting over being punished by female teachers.
It is reported that three teachers were seriously injured while those who attempted to rescue their colleagues were met with merciless beating. The school is said to be having more female teachers.
Attempts by police to intervene were met with brutal resistance as one of the policeman was seriously injured by the rowdy pupils who threw stones at him despite firing several times in the air.
The same fate befell parents and residents who rushed to the school to help the teachers and the policeman.Learning was cut short following the incident and the more than 700 pupils ordered to go home. The attack was the third one of it kind at Kirimon Primary school, similar ones happened in 2011 and 2013."We have experienced this before but today’s (Monday's) attack was the worst because the boys sneaked into classrooms with swords and rungus,” a shaken teacher who requested anonymity told journalists.“As soon as one of the female teachers arrived in Standard Six for her lesson, she was attacked and seriously injured on her head and right hand.”
The boys who engineered the attack are said to be among suspended pupils over misbehavior last week.