A Member of parliament has blamed the recent spate of secondary school unrest on the admission of over-aged students.
Kabondo Kasipul MP, Silvance Osele said that most of the schools that have been hit by the dangerous wave that has left a trail of destruction could be traced back to the presence of students who have gone past the age of secondary school.
Osele said that some of the schools knowingly admitted mature adults targeting to use them to excel in co-curricular activities like ball games and other sporting events in schools.
“Games such as football have become very competitive and some of these schools have been known to admit adults as students in an effort to have them play and win matches for the schools,” he said.
He said that the Education Ministry should consider putting in place a sound policy for adult education to avoid cases of adults mixing and mingling with children in such institutions of learning.
He added that such a mixture would lead to the younger students being intoxicated and misled into violence as a way of solving their grievances.
The MP spoke at Atela Secondary School were the library went up in flames in a suspected arson on Saturday.
The School Board of Management chairman John Ndege said that police were still investigating the cause of the broad day light inferno that completely destroyed the library.
“We cannot speculate at the moment and are waiting for the police and officers from the KPLC to ascertain the exact cause of the fire,” said Ndege.
Osele said that other than an adult education policy, the government should consider an overhaul of the entire education system and have a case where a student’s personality is built instead of a bias towards economic power.
“Our students today are taught how to pass exams and make it economically, with little focus on their personalities,” he said.
He was addressing secondary school chairs of Boards of Management at the Diakonia resort in Oyugis on Monday.