Teacher beaten after his ‘chips funga’ quarrel school cook

NAROK: A secondary school’s plans to improve their academic performance by providing teachers with free food went awry after one of the teachers was beaten by a cook right inside the school kitchen.

This incident occurred just weeks after the school, located in Narok County, celebrated the best KCSE results in years and among the recommendations forwarded to the board of management of the school was that the teachers who reside within the school compound should be served supper every day. This was agreed upon as a way of encouraging the tutors to attend extra classes in the evening and by extension keep the students checked. The school hired a lady cook to be preparing and serving the teachers food.

However the school’s healthy programme did not pick up well because a section of teachers took it a step further. While a good number of good teachers hang around the school, ate the food and attended classes, a pair of young drinking teachers were so excited about the free food but were not ready to attend the extra classes. Among this set of teachers is one young man who found the programme so apt for him that he started bringing along a mate for supper every day.