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Increased school fires: It is the future burning, not schools …

A burning dormitory at Kakamega High School that hosts over 500 students on November 6, 2021. [Benard Lusigi, Standard]

The list of schools on fire looks like an honours list. We should not publicise it, and I agree with Nairobi Senator Johnson Sakaja. It encourages other schools to get to the list, to be counted. It is more of heroism to them, albeit misplaced.

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