Why students are burning schools again

Students salvage their burnt boxes at Chulaimbo Boys High School in Kisumu County after fire of unknown cause razed down a dormitory. [Denish Ochieng/Standard]

Police have arrested six students in the wake of a wave of unrest in Nyanza region.

Anxiety over exams, resistance to transfer of headteachers, copy-cat effect, and indiscipline were blamed for the unrest rocking schools.