Dorms in five Kilifi schools burnt over students' unrest

five dormitories in Kilifi County were on Tuesday burnt in five secondary schools in a night of destruction that has plunged education the area into uncertainty.

In what appeared to be a well-calculated and coordinated plan, three dormitories were burnt to ashes while two were partly consumed by the fire and some property saved.

The affected schools included Chumani Secondary School, Dzitsoni Secondary School and Lutsangani Secondary Schools. A dormitory in each of these three schools was completely burnt down.

According to Kilifi County Education Director Dickson Ole Keis, an attempt to burn Jaribuni Boys Secondary School dormitory was thwarted by a watchman but two beds and four mattresses were burnt.

At Chasimba, the attempt to set fire on the boys’ dormitory also failed but four beds were burnt.

The burning of the dormitories, in which properties worth millions of shillings was destroyed, has sent an alarm to education officials and police in the county, in what looked like a well-arranged plan.

SOURCE: Daily Nation