Four students from Shiner's Boys High School who were arrested on Sunday, November 10, following the fatal stabbing of their fellow student Vincent Ngugi will now sit their examination at the Gilgil Police Station according to Basic Education Principal Secretary Belio Kipsang.
Speaking while overseeing the distribution of examination containers in Nakuru East on Monday, Kipsang stated that the four would proceed with their examinations wherever they will be until the exercise is done under the guard of law enforcement officials as investigations continue.
“We have been given assurance by our security teams in the investigations arm that they have done adequate checks. They have apprehended the person who is suspected to have been the one who caused the harm and fatally injured the other student but this morning, the candidates will do their exams from wherever they are and thereafter, we shall conclude the process. I am sure they will be taken to court in the course of time. Maybe even as early as today,” stated PS Kipsang.
Echoing his remarks, Nakuru County Commissioner Erastus Mbui Mwenda also confirmed that the police had apprehended the main suspect who fled the institution after the fatal stabbing on Saturday night.
“It is also good to report that the students who were involved in this fracas on Saturday night were three boys and the one who did the stabbing. All of them have been arrested. We are also managing so that they also do their exams as the legal system takes its place,” the Nakuru County Commissioner Erastus Mbui Mwenda echoed Kipsang’s remarks.
The tragic incident that led to the premature death of the KCSE candidate is reported to have stemmed out of a disagreement about personal effects at around 8:00 pm on Saturday. The four, who are now in custody, are said to have instigated the quarrel and had just recently returned to school after a suspension over indiscipline issues.
After returning to the school, the four allegedly found some of their items destroyed upon which they laid blame on the victim and attacked him in the dormitory.
Confirming the incident on Sunday, Gilgil Sub-County Police Commander Winstone Mwakio stated that they were yet to determine how the four got hold of the knife stating, "We can't tell how they acquired the knife but the students there are notorious.”
The shocking incident has since gripped the nation seeing as it adds to a series of KCSE candidates who have passed away since the theory examinations kicked off a week ago, albeit over more natural means.
Ngugi’s mother tearfully expressed how the news shocked her entire family as the kin were expecting their son to complete the examination and get home safely.
“As a parent from form one to form four, you expect to go and harvest fruits at the end of four years, then all of a sudden, you are called and told your child is dead,” she stated.
Efforts to save the victim proved futile and he succumbed to the stab wound injury on his lower abdomen. His body is still at the Nakuru Morgue awaiting a postmortem exam.
