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Teachers from other school view destroyed property inside a burnt dormitory at Malindi High School in Kilifi County on Thursday 21st July 2016. Property worth Millions of shillings was destroyed after the School Library and one of the dorms were burnt down. [Photo/Kelvin Karani/Standard]
It has now emerged that parents pay as much as Sh10,000 to buy examination materials for their children.
Revelations into the raging school fires in secondary schools shows that a major panic has hit principals who had collected millions of shillings to procure papers as the government sealed all examination-cheating loopholes.
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