School activities in Mawingu Primary School in Ol-Kalou Constituency, Nyandarua County were stopped on Tuesday, January 9.
This was after protesting parents and students torched a fence that was erected in the school during the 2-month long holiday.
The protesting parents accused a few connected individuals from the area of erecting the fence as a guise to grab the property.
“We came to witness how this person fenced the school even after we went for public participation at Mawingu Hospital on the issue,” one of the protesting parents told the press.
The parents complained that three days after the public participation, the alleged land grabber demarcated the school property.
Upon interrogation, he claimed that he had been granted ownership of the land by a commissioner at Ardhi House.
“We shall not accept that anyone comes from nowhere and fences the land and we are waiting for the second participation over the matter,” the parents vowed.
The protests happened on the first day of school reopening for the first term which paralysed the kicking off of learning activities.
It was not reported if the school administration was involved in the fencing of the school property.
Additionally, the person who had erected the fence did not make a statement on whether he would escalate the case to a court of law.
This happened days after residents from the Mavoko area in Athi River conducted a similar protest accusing another well-connected individual of a plan to grab school land in the area.
The angry residents matched to Joska Police Station in Mavoko accusing a senior detective from the area of colluding with a businessman to grab the property.
