By Dickens Wasonga.

An ugly sex incident reportedly took place in two Nyanza schools that has left education stakeholders within the area deeply concerned over the waning discipline amongst students in the region which was once known for academic excellence.

On two separate incidents a group of form four students from Onjiko High school in Kisumu county reportedly sneaked their way in to two neighboring girls schools, namely Rae and Ahero Girls secondary schools allegedly on a sex quest mission.

According to the principal of Onjiko Boys High school Mr. Alfred Ochiel , five form four boys from his school sneaked out of their school at 8.pm on the night of 21 July last month and went to Rae Girls which is almost 10 kilometers away where he alleged the students were received by a group of waiting form four Girls from the girls school who then went on to engage in sex.

” Upon arrival the boys from my school were warmly welcomed by five girls from the school who ushered them to an a abandoned building which once served as a classroom within the school compound where they reportedly engaged in sex ” said the principal Onjiko Boys High school.

The principal who spoke to journalists at his office who visited the school on Thursday last week to seek his comment over the unbelievable incident gave the scribes a detailed account of how sex encounter between some form four students from his school and that of the Girls school went on as though it was allowed to happen.

He shocked the scribes with his openness while describing it all and vowing he could not keep quite or shy away from speaking about an incident he too agreed had damaged the reputation of the two schools which should be shining and setting pace as centers of academic excellence and not reduce themselves to what is a kin to brothels.

While at it, the principal narrated to the dumbfounded journalists how the daring students, while allegedly enjoying moments of passion even had the audacity to have some of the girls watch over them .

” Three form four girls from Rae stood guard and two others guided the ”guests” within the compound just to make sure nothing went amiss. Said Ochiel

” While others were having sex in the abandoned building , three girls from Rae were guarding the entrance while the other two made sure the visiting boys were safely guided in and out of the school compound ” he added.

The principal who told journalists in his office that he was at his rural home attending to his sick father when the incident occurred also revealed that while investigating the incident they manged to recover a Sim card that the students were reportedly using to coordinate the whole thing weeks before they executed it.

This, he said showed that the whole thing was preplanned.

But the high school principal who claimed his boys were hired to commit crime of passion in the girls school is a bitter man. He is bitter that his deputy who was informed about the incident by one of his teaching staff allegedly chose to sit on the information for reasons which he still can not comprehend.

” When it happened for the first time at Rae my deputy was promptly told about the incident through a colleague who once taught at the girls school. The teacher had been told of the incident by another teacher from the girls school through a text message.When I asked her why she concealed the information about the incident, she told me she had informed my deputy.She even showed me the text message” said Ochiel.

According to him, his deputy was fully aware about the incidents and in the second one where four form four boys stormed Ahero over a similar mission, he claimed it was actually his deputy and the senior master who were called in by the administration at Ahero girls to piclk up their student who had been arrested there.

But still the principal was kept in the the dark, so he alleged.

Mr. Ochiel told reporters at his office on Thursday last week that he only got wind of what took place after another group of boys from his school again stormed the neighboring Ahero Girls High school on a similar mission but this time they were unlucky. He received a phone call from the principal Ahero girls informing him about the unfortunate incident.

According to him, one of students, a form four boy had been arrested by the security guards at Ahero girls high school .

” I do not want to speculate who is actually behind the twin incidents but I can tell you for sure that I have been fought ever since I came to this place. Several interested groups appears to have ganged up and want me out of here. I have never settled and this is why I must talk frankly to you about this incident which we can not hide anymore to help the school and other students who are here to learn. It happened and that is the truth”. He said.

Ochiel added that he suspects that even the incident at Rea was planned by those who want the principal in that school to be transferred.

” My students were hired to commit crime in those two girls schools.Does it not surprise you that students who should be preparing for their KCSE examinations have all the time to waste on side shows?Our students were already taking their end term tests at the time of the incident while those at Rae were also just about to start.” he added.

The principal revealed that so far nine of the form four students who were involved in the two incidents, four at Ahero and five at Rae have all been suspended.

He told the journalists that ten girls from Rea were reportedly involved in the alleged sex scandal. However , he said investigations which himself and the administration carried out after they became aware of the incident narrowed down to only three students who were suspected to have been deeply involved as the key planners of the ugly episode.

We could not verify the correct number of students from Rae who were involved in the incident as stated by the principal Onjiko high school who insisted they jointly tried to unravel the meastry behind the episode together as CEO of the two learning institutions.

Our efforts to seek comments from the principal Rea, Mrs Pamela Mola remained futile. When this reporter together with other journalists visited the school on Thursday last week to investigate the matter, the principal was not around.

Her deputy Mr. Ida Ojino flanked by the school’s senior master Mr. John Okelo remained would not dare speak to the press over the matter.

The duo told the journalists that only the principal could comment on the issue given its sensitivity but efforts to get her to speak over the alleged scandal were fruitless as she was repoeedly sick and was said to have been admitted at a Kisumu hospital.

When reached for comment, the Kisumu county education director Mrs. Beatrice Adu confirmed she had been informed about the alleged incident in the three schools adding that she had dispatched a team of investigators from her office last week to visit to the affected schools and probe the matter.

” I am ware about the matter and we have launched our investigations. On Thursday we visited Rea girls and we interviewed the girls, the boarding master and the deputy principal. We did not talk to the principal who we were told was sick” said Adu.

The director said although the girls interviewed by her team denied claims that they engaged in sex with the Onjiko boys, she said they confirmed to them that the boys visited the school at 10 pm that night while in civilian’.

” They they even revealed that they had communicated with them prior to the visit.However they claimed that they shouted when they entered the school’s compound to alert the security guard at the gates before the boys took off ” Adu added.

She promised to give a comprehensive statement today after receiving a complete report from the team who visited the schools to investigate the matter.

Security guards at Rae who talked to this writer on condition of anonymity for fear of victimization by the school administration claimed that the school has only one watchman at night and pleas to have more employed have always been rebuffed on grounds that there was no money to pay additional security personnel.

” Can you imagine one security guard manning this whole compound at night with a population of about 800 girls. It is impossible” said the watchman.

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