Parents storm school demanding prayers to cast out demons

By KAMAU MAICHUHIE

Ruiru, Kenya: Drama unfolded at Thome primary school Ruiru after parents stormed the school demanding to hold prayers in the school to cast out demons which they claimed have invaded their children.

The irate parents also wanted to withdraw their children from the school but were denied the chance by the deputy headmaster who was acting head.

The parents claimed that the demons have been attacking some of the pupils forcing them to speak in strange languages and sounds which they said have become a serious concern to them.

Charles Angao a parent narrated how her daughter who is in Class Seven started to behave strangely after she was allegedly given juice and cake in school by a fellow pupil.

“Sometimes she walks like a snake and makes very strange sound like that of a goat and a snake which have really worried us,” he said

According to Hannah Njeri who is a parent to a Class 7 pupil, her daughter and three of her colleagues went missing after attending Saturday tuition and upon interrogation when they came back, they claimed that they had gone to the ‘ocean’.

“My daughter and her colleagues were inducted into the cult after they were given juice and cake by a fellow pupil which we believe is meant to introduce them to devil worship,” she said.

 Njeri says that her daughter revealed that she had been an agent of devil worship since she was in class five and had enrolled more than 30 pupils in the school into the cult.

The pupil said that she used money and food stuffs to lure her colleagues into devil worship.

The Class Seven pupil and who has now been out of the school for the last one month says they escape at night at a river which is behind the school where they meet their leader.

Other pupils who also claimed to be possessed by the spirits revealed that they have been mysteriously receiving money deposited in their school bags and jewelry and have been finding themselves dispatched to unknown destinations under an ocean in their sleep.

Parents also claimed that was the third time they were holding such prayers while area residents who were not aware of such accusations sat and stared as the drama unfolded.

The parents'  who first held prayers at the school later stormed the house of the woman who the children claimed had inducted them into the cult in order to cast out demons.

Some of the villagers joined in the prayers while others jammed into the compound to see the “devil” who they believed was in the form of a snake.

Unfortunately no snake was seen coming out of the accused's house after several hours. The accused lady refuted the allegations while citing family rivalry as the root cause of the accusation.

 Efforts to get a comment from the school administration were futile as the head teacher was said to be absent while the deputy head teacher declined to speak saying he is not authorised to talk to the media.