Baringo pupils to remain out of school as bandits stay put

Members of displaced families  are left to seek refuge in local schools following the insecurity in Baringo County which has left hundreds displaced while others have been killed by rustlers [PHOTO:BONIFACE THUKU/STANDARD]

After a four-week holiday, schools are set reopen countrywide for second term beginning today. But this will not be the case for some schools in Baringo County, thanks to the cattle rustling menace.

At the once vibrant Ngelecha Primary School, text and exercise book pages and desks are scattered all over the  compound after learning was paralysed in 2012 and villages in the school’s neighbourhood deserted after raiders converted the area a battlefield.