Alumni Condemns demolition of the Kisumu school’s wall, threaten to move to court
By Dickson Odhiambo
August 25, 2021
Alumni Condemns demolition of the Kisumu school’s
wall, threaten to move to court
The Former Students of Kisumu Boys High School have strongly
condemned a move by the City Management of Kisumu to demolish part of the
school’ wall fence in a bid to remove some traders along Kisumu-Kakamega Road.
The Alumni of the school now known as Kisumu School have
termed the action as barbaric, uncouth and retrogressive in nature hence
deserves condemned in the strongest terms possible.
Addressing the press at his office in Kisumu, President of
the Kisumu Boys High school Alumni Foundation James Aggrey Mwamu says the
incident that took place nearly mid night is a very unfortunate one.
He says the incident caught many students unaware including
new form one students who were recently admitted in the school and are still
new within the compound.
“This is a very unfortunate incident where bulldozers were
sent in the middle of the night to pull down part of the fence at the Kisumu
School. A very retrogressive one coupled with impunity of the highest order,”
Mwamu says.
He says should the county Government of Kisumu want the
school to replace the wall fence and move it inside then a delegation should be
sent to school to talk to the school’s authority before such like a thing is
executed.
Mwamu has threatened to take up legal steps to ensure that
the issue is fully addressed and some reparation is done.
“You can now imagine how the students are left without a
fence and the kind of insecurity that one can be. Such like impunity must stop
at all cost,” he adds.
Mwamu says the best thing to do while removing the shoe traders
who normally hang their items on the wall was to give the school a notice to
remove the particular fence to another place without doing what they did.
“School is a community project where students are and not a
personal property where anyone can do what he or she wants without consulting
the authority,” Mwamu further says.
Acting Kisumu City Manage Michael Abala Wanga could not be
reached to comment on the matter.
Meanwhile, the Kisumu School has thanked Education Cabinet
Secretary Prof George Magoha who personally visited it and secure admission of
a bright but needy student in form one from Nyabera area within Kisumu County.
The school say it is a good gesture from the Government to
ensure the issue of 100% transition from Primary to Secondary school.
The boy is fully sponsored by the Government throughout his
four year secondary education at the Kisumu School.
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