Girls’ school parents resolution comes back to bite them

Parents and Form one students wait for admission at Nyabururu National School on 8/1/2018. [Sammy Omingo, Standard]

A parents' resolution to bar strangers from visiting their daughters in school was used against some on Saturday.

Many parents were stranded at the gate of Kihumbu-ini Girls Secondary School in Gatanga when they were denied access to a meeting because they did not have passes.

The Form Two parents were barred from entering the school to participate in an academic clinic, with some claiming they had not been issued with gate passes.

They accused the school management of punishing them, yet it was to blame for failing to issue them with security cards.

A parent who had travelled from Nairobi said only 50 parents were issued with passes last year with the promise that the others would receive theirs this year.

The school's principal, Julia Wangui, declined to comment but the chairman of the board of management, David Kang’the, said the decision on security passes was endorsed by parents.

“Strangers masquerading as relatives would visit the children,” he said.