Student at Center of KTN Journalists' Stoning Incident Emerges

A student who had gone missing from St Stevens in Machakos County has been found, after an incident which captured the media attention.

KTN journalists who had gone to the school in the quest to find out what happened to the student, were met by hostility after the school's principal, Charles Kyalo allegedly told his students to stone them.

In an interview conducted by the station, the girl narrated that she was sent home for lack of school fees after which she bought some water at Makutano.

The girl, however, says that she neither knows where she was since her disappearance nor whom she was with the whole time.

"Nilikutana na mama mwingine nikamwambia anisaidie fare, akanipea Ksh 50 bob ndio nikakuja (I met a woman and I asked her to help me with Ksh 50 for fare)," the girl recalled.

The form two student claimed that the woman took her to town where she was able to board a bus to Satelite area where she lives.

When she got home, a neighbour called the mother and they reunited.

On Monday, KTN reporter Caroline Bii, her cameraman, Magana Kirira and driver Emaculate Joseph suffered injuries after students of St.Stephens Girls Secondary School, Machakos County allegedly stoned and kicked them out of their school.

The journalists had gone to the school in order to acquire information about the form two students who went missing in first term.

The vehicle they were using was also torched by the students and their camera destroyed.

The school was closed on Tuesday and the principal was charged and released on a Ksh1 million bond and a surety of the same.