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A primary school headteacher will not be cooling government porridge for two years even after pleading guilty to punishing and injuring an asthmatic pupil.
Hussein Mwanza, the headteacher from Bububu Primary in Dongo Kundu, Mombasa, will however serve two years suspended sentence. Mwanza pleaded guilty of punishing and injuring the girl on May 11 for arriving late in school on an exam day.
“I did not know that the girl was asthmatic, and she did not tell me. I punished the pupil because she was late for exams. I had no intention of hurting her,” a remorseful Mwanza told the Mombasa court.
Mwanza told the court that: “I gave the girl permission to go home after she came back from class to inform me that she was asthmatic and that she was bleeding at the spot I had caned her.”
The magistrate warned the teacher that, “Corporal punishment in schools was banned long ago and it is illegal. There are other means to administer punishment in schools. So, be warned that next time you will be jailed if you cane any pupil.”
