Tension heightened as parents of a Kisii South primary school protested after a pupil sent home to collect levies was knocked down by a hit-and run vehicle dying on the spot. Emmanuel Barongo aged six and a grade 2 pupil at Nyamare primary school met his fate as he crossed the road outside the learning institution to his home. The school headteacher had sent home the deceased for failure by his parents to pay sh. 60 levy.
Emotions ran high when irate parents stormed the school,accusing the head teacher of causing the death of the pupil for regularly dispatching pupils home over non-payment of the levies or lacking personal effects. Area OCPD Charles Manchinji confirmed the incident and said the parents had been prevailed upon to be calm pending investigations into the pupil’s death.
According to the OCPD,school learning programmes had been paralyzed with the pupils leaving for their homes. Manchinji described the section of the road where the accident occurred as a ‘black spot’ and vowed to engage the ministry concerned to erect bumps to avert more deaths. Police moved the body to Kisii Teaching and Referral Hospital mortuary.