A deputy principal has sounded the alarm after receiving death threats from some if his students.
This comes as incidents of death threats and actual killings if teachers rise in the Western region.
According to a conversation with fellow teachers seen by Bizna Kenya, the deputy principal said that he has been threatened with death together with two other teachers.
Apparently, the anonymous students wrote an anonymous note threatening them with death and dropped it off in his office after breaking the window. The note indicated that the three teachers would be killed within two months.
The deputy principal said that he has reported the threats to the police and has requested for a transfer at the Teachers Service Commission sub-County office.
“The only evidence I have is the threat note, the police OB number and a photo of the broken window,” he said.
He added that this was not the first incident. “On January 25, the community sent learners to chase away my principal. Lucky enough, he didn’t turn up as per his regular Tuesday routine. They decided to stone the school Tv in the staffroom through a window,” he said.
“Our interogation gathered that his office and house were to be torched on sighting him. But whoever was sent for petrol (a student) delayed till the fuel retailer closed down. God’s grace!”
He further shared that since then, the Principal has been running the school through phone calls.
“His transfer request has hit a snag. We invited the BOM, who came with the chief to calm the learners. The community wants him out.”
The deputy principal’s confession caused other teachers to open up on the tribulations they are currently going through in the hands of their students.
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“We are not safe, two weeks ago a mom and son who was appearing for discipline action attacked the disciplinary committee. He later on went to class unleashing terror on a madam teacher to the point of removing his belt kumnyorosha and vowed to teach them a lesson,” a teacher commented.
He added that “in the same county of Busia, a parent attacked one madam and almost left her for death with kidneys injured. It’s bad out here especially with drugs and substance abuse.”
The rise in incidents of attacks on teachers have also raised alarm bells in Kisumu County. For instance, speaking to the media recently, Zablon Awange, the executive secretary of KUPPET Kisumu County said that there had been about ten teachers’ deaths between 2022 and 2023, most of which were the result of attacks and accidents.
“There are many security concerns for our teachers as they engage with learners. Teachers in Kisumu are under siege. We have reported this increase to the police and are demanding action,” he said.
According to a related report that appeared in the Daily Nation, one of the latest victims of attacks on teachers is Calvin Oruko.
The report noted that Oruko was a “young man and a teacher by profession with a strong focus on science, who was attacked and killed by unknown assailants on his way to his home in Sondu.” He was a teacher at the Kisumu Senior Academy.