I’ve been saying it for a while and I’ll keep shouting this to anyone that cares enough to listen. We are a walking nation of depressed people. Almost everyone in this country is fighting a mental ailment that no one else has a clue about, including close family members.
How else do you explain a teacher beating a grade four pupil 107 strokes of the cane and adding twenty more on the hapless child a day later.
It doesn’t even stop there. After realising that the kid – who happens to be new to the school having just transferred from another school in Nairobi – had developed serious complications and couldn’t sit properly, the school decides in all it’s wisdom to hide him in the dormitory and block off any family members that try to get in contact with him. No medication, no hospital visit, just outright impunity to block access to the outside world and pray that God performs a miracle on the boy’s wounds. If I say I am disgusted it would be the most understated comment of the year. I am beyond appalled.
The perpetrator of this inhuman incident in a country where corporal punishment was banished decades ago should be brought to book and held accountable for whatever he did to that innocent boy. Management of Riang’ombe Primary School refusing to give a statement and refusing to meet with the boy’s parents should be taken seriously and the headteacher treated as an accomplice to this crime. Because that is exactly what it is, a crime.
This outright lack of remorse is what gets to me and the fact that no one found it to necessary to take the boy to hospital, even as his flesh continues to rot and his condition keeps getting worse. Where is the humanity common sense?
Mtoto ametoka Nairobi akapelekwa Ushago ni kitu ya kukasirisha mwalimu kweli?
I know things are tough everywhere but please, can we try and be sober? Every Time I imagine the flogging that little boy got…one, two, three to 107 strokes My heart bleeds for him.
#justiceforgradefourpupil
