Foreign students will no longer be admitted to schools in Mandera.
This follows a government ban on the admission of all non-Kenyan students to all schools in the area which has proved to be prone to insecurity.
The current number of foreign students already enrolled in primary and secondary schools in the county is estimated at 890.
They will all be allowed to complete their classes, albeit under close watch by security and intelligence officers.
Speaking to Journalists on Wednesday in his office Mandera County Director of Education Ismael Barrow however said that the number could be bigger especially for schools along the Kenya Somali border.
Speaking to The Nation, a source revealed that most Somali nationals who take their children to Kenyan schools do so to acquire Kenyan citizenship.
This is possible due to the fact that when the students get to standard eight, they are required to get a birth certificate to register for KCPE examination.
Once they acquire Kenyan birth certificates and the form four certificate, they are assured of getting a Kenyan identification card when they become of age.
The move by Ministry of Education comes in the wake of increased attacks and threats of Al Shabaab terror group in the country as well as increased cases of radicalization.
The county has currently has 233 primary schools- 202 public and 31 private while out of 60 secondary schools, 48 are public and 12 private.
