Moi Girls' High School has been closed down after a rape incident which took place in the institution.
The decision to send the students home was reached after a meeting between the school administration and the board on Saturday.
Distraught parents had camped outside the school as news broke, demanding to know whether their children were safe.
They were finally let in shortly after 8.00 pm and ushered into a meeting with the school administration that went on late into the night.
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Education Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohamed, Principal Secretary Belio Kipsang and Nairobi Woman Representative Esther Passaris arrived at the school a few minutes before 9 pm and joined in the meeting.
There was controversy over the exact number of girls raped on Friday night, with conflicting reports placing it as either one or three.
It also emerged that the school had asked the students to keep quiet about the rape incident, which managed to keep it under wraps until Saturday evening when the news broke out.
Students stated they had been asked to go to class and go on with their normal activities and were further instructed not to talk about the rape incident.
Detectives from Kilimani police station and Nairobi County police headquarters were assembled to investigate the incident which has shocked the entire nation.
Additional reports indicated that one of the issues detectives were probing was whether the rapist was an outsider or whether the act was carried out by someone who works within the institution.
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Among the items collected by detectives from the scene of the crime was a buibui thought to have been dropped by the rapist.
