‘If only I had accepted daughter’s plea to skip school’

Sherlyn Njeri, 12, one of the pupils injured at Precious Talent Top Primary School is consoled by Margaret Musundi, nurse at Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH), on Monday, September 23 2019. [David Njaaga, Standard]

Had Mildred Naliaka not persuaded her daughter Whitney Wekesa to return to school, she would have escaped the tragedy that struck yesterday.

Naliaka started her yesterday morning as she routinely does each school day. By 6.10am she was already up readying Whitney, her first-born, for school.