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Chief Magistrate Julius Ng'ang'a directed the MP's detention until this morning, when he will make a ruling on the prosecution's request.
The school was closed indefinitely after a confrontation between students and anti-riot police degenerated into destruction of school property.
"We have advised the area education officers to close the school as we do not want to risk students' lives. The principal has been interdicted and that is a communication from the headquarters, which we do not have powers to challenge," said County Teachers Service Commission Director Joyce Kikuvi.
The principal was interdicted after she refused to take a transfer.