This archive report was first published on 3 July 2021.
On June 30, a teacher at Oldonyiro Mixed Day and Boarding Secondary School in Isiolo County was attacked by students after he asked them to stop eating from sufurias.
Pius Mugambi, a 35-year-old Physics and Chemistry teacher, was on duty when he went to the school's dining hall at lunchtime and found at least ten students eating from sufurias.
He asked them to eat from plates instead, but the students began shouting at him and some physically assaulted him.
According to Mugambi, the students said, 'we are circumcised men, you can't force us to use plates like you would order a child.'
He was seriously beaten up and the resultant commotion attracted other teachers' attention.
The students fled upon seeing the teachers rushing to the scene.
However, Mugambi claims that at 8:30pm the same day, while walking to a police post at Oldonyiro trading centre, at least five students emerged from a thicket and attacked him again.
They wrestled him to the ground and kicked and punched him several times.
A police officer who was on patrol rushed to the scene and rescued him.
On July 1, Mugambi filed a report at the Oldonyiro Police Station under the OB Number 05/7/2021.
Police say they have launched investigations into the matter.
Moses Kimwere, the Secretary of the Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) in Isiolo, condemned the incident and asked authorities to expedite investigations and arraign the rogue students.
Isiolo County Director of Education, Hussein Koryow, however denied that Mugambi was attacked within the school compound, claiming the teacher met thugs who assaulted him at the Oldonyiro trading centre at 11:30pm while heading home from a drinking joint.
