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Rasta's not a fashion but religion, parent tells court

Third way Alliance party leader Ekuro Aukot (left) and Olympic high school student Makeda Ndinda during an interview with The Standard before proceeding to court to force Olympic high school admit Makeda to form one after she was denied access on the fact that the school doesn't admit students with dreadlocks14/1/2019. [Beverlyne Musili,Standard]

The parents of a teenage girl who was suspended for wearing locks to school yesterday went to court to challenge the suspension.

The 15-year-old reported for From One at Olympic High School and had gone through her first geography and mathematics lessons on Thursday last week when she was summoned by the deputy headteacher and sent away for wearing locks.

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