Dramatic scenes unfolded at Moi Comprehensive School in Nakuru City after parents wheeled the body of a Grade Eight pupil to the institution’s compound.
The incident happened on Monday, February 23.
The school reportedly attempted to admit Moses Nyang’au to Nakuru Provincial General Hospital, but the facility declined, stating that the boy was already dead.
The furious parents wheeled the body back to the institution to demand answers over the circumstances surrounding his sudden death.
According to videos circulating online, when the parents reached the school, the staff locked the reception building, forcing some of them to wail while running in the compound.
They staged protests claiming that the boy’s parents were not promptly informed about the situation. Police officers struggled to contain the charged crowd before eventually transferring the body back to the hospital mortuary.
The incident has raised concerns about surging deaths in schools.
Some Kenyans condemned the death while also raising issues about the trauma on the learners who watched the scenario unfold.
