PARENTS GANG UP TO EJECT AN AMOROUS PRIMARY SCHOOL HEADMASTER ON ALLEGATIONS THAT HE IS SEXUALLY INVOLVED WITH HIS FEMALE PUPILS.
Writes Leo Odera Omolo From Rongo.
Parents of a primary school in Rongo have ganged up against a school headmaster, whom they accused of allegedly making love to his female pupils.
The incident took place at Utoma Primary School in Sakwa South Location.
The rejection has since translated into bad omen for the teacher in question, who was transferred to another school within the locality. But parents there had been tipped of his unbecoming behavior with the female pupils, and he was met with hostile reception, forcing him to stay at home temporarily, without being posted to any other school.
The incident was confirmed by the location Chief, Mr Orwa Odipo, who said he was aware of the incident, but declined to discuss its full details.
When the school re-opened last week, the amorous teacher found his way into the school compound blocked by angry parents who turned him away, and even threatened to beat him up.
The head teacher, who hails from within the locality, has since not been posted to any school, following his ejection by the parents, and is reportedly staying at home.
The teacher’s predicament started when parents converged in the school to hear complaints, when three pupils, who claimed to have been the teacher’s secret lovers, and had conceived by him, came forward before the parents, and confirmed their sexual escapades with him, during a stormy parents/teachers meeting held at the school.
A good number of other female pupils, who had fallen victim to this head teacher are also reported to have left their studies quietly and prematurely, cutting short their education. Most of these victimized girls have been forced out of school at the tender ages between 14 and 16 years.
The politics of teachers/parents relations is said to have become more sensitive in that locality, especially when young primary school pupils are reportedly made to become under aged mothers. This is what prompted the parents at Utoma Primary School, in East Alego sub-location to reject their headmaster, following accusations that he is fond of making love to the pupils.
The habit of teachers in primary schools seducing young pupils under their pupilage is not an isolated incident. In most cases, nobody takes any measures to punish the teacher involved. This is one of the few rare cases where the parents have ganged up and ejected the head teacher on this kind of accusation of immorality.
In most cases these kind of incidences are handled quietly within the families of those involved. But the Utoma incident is the first such known incident in which the parents decided to gang up and eject the offending teacher, and go public about it.
Speaking to this writer, the chief said that the school belonged to the community, and once the community has rejected any particular teacher for misconduct, the Provincial Administration has no authority to impose the rejected teacher and keep him in the school. “Our role is only to ensure that peace and harmony prevails in all school, and it is up the members of the teaching profession to maintain high degree of good morality wherever they work”.
The teacher in question is said to have gone underground and could not be reached for his immediate comment. However, parents interviewed around Mariwa Market vowed to expose all male primary school teachers working in the area, who are found to indulge in this kind of immorality, which they said is unlawful and also against Christianity teachings.
Ends.
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TEACHERS SOURCE OF CULTURE OF IMPUNITY IN OUR SOCIETY
I do not understand why this subject has generated no debate. This social misfit has no place in any school and must permanently be barred from ever teaching again.
It has been my silent observation that the culture of subserviance that teachers imposed on their students enforced by inflicting physical and expulsion from school has had its toll on society. I recall that in the primary school I went to it was demanded of you to salute the teacher and thank him/her after ten strokes of the cane on your bare back for failing to stand at attention and salute when the freak is passingby. The practice was to uproot defiance and to submit sheepishly to the teachers and established everchanging and arbitrary rules. Five strokes of the cane for speaking your mother tongue. Whole day in the scorching Sakwa sun for an eight year old digging a new toilet pit for not having a new shirt for school uniform.
I remember a classmate that kept silent the entire time at school because he could not speak English and would be given a disk and hence punshment at end of the day. These teachers were colonial agents hired and programmed to turn young Kenyans into loyal subjects.
The price the teachers reaped was cheap sex from their underage students(hat time we were not even students we were called pupils) and free labour. They created this culture of impunity.
It is very much unfortunate that the very person entrusted with the future of young girls seems so much in a hurry to sink them and their families in poverty by cutting short their studies through early pregnancy. The courage of the Utoma Primary School parents to stand up and say enough is enough is laudable.
One however wonders why the area chief chooses to be mean with information, making it appear like he cordons such behaviours.
Lit manade joka nyanam! Ng’atni ketho nying jopuonj malich manadeni jowa! No wonder Nyanza is leading in poor female child enrolment in high schools. Mano Ondiek mang’ang’a- Life imprisonment is his rightful place. He should be removed from the society because he has literally killed and messed up the future of these innocent girls. Believe you me, there are so many such teachers in Luo Nyanza. His act is goes against the ethos and ethics governing this noble profession. He should be interdicted and made to cater for the upkeep of the kids sired by him. THO!! Jachien marach!!
mano to wach matek.Ang’o momiyo chuo timore kamano.Mon mo ti ng’eny to ka ok onyal yudo okaw mon
This is child abuse, having carnal knowledge of an under age child whether with or with out consent is wrong and illegal, this man deserves to waste in jail and be an example to others. Mr. Leo could you please let us know what happened to this man? I wonder what organisations such as FIDA is doing as well as the government. What of the area chief I thought one of his duties was to maintain law and order and in this case clearly some law has been brocken making this mad man a criminal, why was he not arrested immediately and prosecuted?
May God help us.