Parents of the Form One student at Chemase Secondary School who allegedly died after being subjected to corporal punishment on Tuesday, March 7, revealed their son's narration of the encounter with his teachers that turned fatal.
Speaking to the press, his father indicated that the son, Lelvin Kiptanui, intimated to him that he and his classmate were being punished by one of the teachers.
However, while the teacher who caught them administered the punishment, his colleague allegedly invited himself to the disciplinary session unleashing unspeakable wrath on them.
"At first, my son and the other students received eight strokes of the cane each. A second teacher caned the other student 14 times before turning on my son and continuously beat him up forcing him to run away," the father noted.
On March 4, the deceased was rushed to the nearby dispensary after complaining of body pains. The medical practitioners at the facility then referred him to the Nandi Level IV Hospital.
Kiptanui was pronounced dead the following day while receiving treatment at the facility. Preliminary reports delinked the death to the injuries sustained during the punishment.
The hospital's Superintendent Elikana Chirchir told the media that the teenager succumbed to a bacterial infection coupled with acute pneumonia - a diagnosis his mother differed with.
"When he left home for school in the morning, my son had a clean bill of health," the distraught mother remarked.
Meanwhile, the school board is yet to take responsibility for the demise of the student until an official report on the cause of death is revealed.
Two of the teachers accused of administering corporal punishment to the student are on the run and Police detectives launched a manhunt to fish them out of their hideouts.
Chemasa School was closed indefinitely to avert property damage amid a looming student strike in protest of the loss of the life of their comrade.
Parents have called on the Ministry of Education to address the return of corporal punishment in schools.
