A fierce fire on Tuesday evening razed down a dormitory at Kirobon Girls High School in Ngata, Nakuru County, destroying property of unknown value.
The incident exposed that the school was still running holiday tuition which was banned by the government in 2015.
Assistant county commissioner Mr Anthony Mwangi called out the school for running an illegal tuition scheme and urged the schools in the region to comply with the government’s ruling that declared holiday learning illegal.
“We all know that tuition is banned and I am appealing to all school heads to go by the government’s policy to close the schools during holidays as required,” the commissioner said.
In August 2016, the then Cabinet Secretary of Education Prof. Jacob Kaimenyi directed county education officials to ensure that schools did not conduct holiday tuition and asked parents to report those schools still doing so to the authorities.
Kaimenyi said that holiday tuition was outlawed under Section 37 of the Basic Education Act, 2012 and that any person who contravened that provision committed an offence and was liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding Sh100,000 or imprisonment for a period not exceeding one year or to both.
