This is a guest post by Kennedy Mugera.
Parents stormed Cheplaskei Primary School in Uasin Gishu County on Monday, in a show of anger over the impregnation of over a dozen girls who are in Standard Six, Seven and eight.
The allegations, which implicated teachers and villagers to the crime, received a much more cautious approach from teachers at the school who could only admit to four girls being pregnant and an unnamed colleague as one of the culprits.
The parents, who went as far as to lock the headmasters office in protest of his performance in the school accused teachers of turning the school into a maternity ward for siring children and demanded accountability for the scenario.
Earlier on, Pupils attempted to block their parents from accessing the institution by locking the gate as their parents chanted anti head teacher slogans, but the pupils responded by saying that the besieged head should remain.
The parents claim that official complaints to the Education Ministry have so far been ignored, even as the head teacher Mr. Rongoei terms all the allegations as unfounded.
Uasin Gishu County Director of Education Yusuf Jilo said he was not aware of the matter but promised to investigate and bring the culprits to book.