23 secondary schools are among 95 public schools that have been forced to shut down due to insecurity in different parts of the country.
This is according to Education Cabinet Secretary Jacob Kaimenyi who was speaking in a meeting with education stakeholders at the Kenya Institute of Education in Nairobi.
During the Tuesday meeting, Kaimenyi said that schools in Baringo, West Pokot and Turkana counties had been closed as a result of the cattle rustling conflict witnessed in the area of late.
He added that in Garissa, Mandera and Wajir fear of terrorist attacks has forced more than 1,000 teachers who are not originally from the region to depart from the region and have since refused to return to work leading to the closure of some schools.
The Nation quotes the CS saying that the ministry will work with Interior Ministry to boost security so that learning can resume in the affected regions.
The newspaper reports that Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) boycotted the meeting saying it would achieve nothing.
KNUT's Secretary-General Wilson Sossion had on Tuesday said that teachers will not return to the areas plagued with insecurity, unless the government works in making sure they will be safe.
