By Hopkin Reporter
A student of Kajiunduthi Secondary School Muthambi ward in Maara constituency Tharaka Nithi county has been found dead in the nearby River Maara after the boys school went on Strike on Monday night.
The student was found dead near Kiriani shopping center, after residents called police who retrieved the body and took it to Chuka general hospital mortuary.
Geoffrey Gitonga Kiragu who is a guardian at the school where his grandson is a student said the did not get any information about the strike from the school despite police being called to the school.
“I was just called by another parent who has a child at the school I went and picked my grandchild and we were told to take them back to school by the administration that is when we got the news that one boy had died.
The adminstration should have amicably resolved the diffences you see what it has brought,” Kiragu said.
Kiragu said it was not human to let students scamper for safety. Another parent at the school who did not want to be identified said he was called by his son trouble began when student confronted the deputy Principal at about 9:30 pm after the evening preps.
“Wanafunzi walisema walikua wanakaziwa sana” (The students said the school administration was being extra strict) students jumped the school fence and ran towards the river at after allegedly police who were called to the scene allegedly fired what is yet to be established if was a bullet or teargas canister,” He said.