School hires untrained teachers after 13 leave over insecurity

A clan has hired eight untrained teachers to manage Ngamani Primary School after 13 teachers left due to insecurity. Differences between Chonyi and Kauma led to the closure of the school in February.

Leaders from the two clans could not agree over the boundary and location of the school and even the ethnic composition of teachers at the school. The school is located at Jaribuni on the contested boundary between Ganze and Chonyi sub-counties. Things took a turn for the worse when parents from the Kauma clan stormed the school and beat up the majority Chonyi teachers. They also withdrew their 540 students from the clan.