Education Cabinet Secretary George Magoha has issued a fresh directive two days before students go back to school after a 9-month break due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Speaking on Saturday, January 2, the CS directed schools not to demand sanitisers from students when they resume from Monday, January 4.
Magoha explained that if students were allowed to come with sanitisers the schools would have large quantities which students may use for unintended purposes.
“This situation where some teachers are asking children to buy sanitisers in large quantities and take to schools shall not be allowed,"
“Out of the 16 million children we have, maybe 50 of them are erratic in thinking. You do not want to give them a situation in which you bring so much liquid sanitisers to the school which they will use for other things,” stated Magoha, while inspecting Olympic Primary School in Nairobi,
“Sanitisers in schools should be in public spaces and if the school finds that the children are so disciplined, they can have private small containers of sanitisers, then we shall hold the teachers in those schools personally responsible for the safety of those children,” he added.
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