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CORPORAL PUNISHMENT IN OUR SCHOOLS HAS QUIRKS THAT ARE MORALLY OBJECTABLE!

Author: Okumu, Brian

Country: Kenya



A primary school teacher in Nairobi was charged with manslaughter after a pupil he hit on the head in class died in hospital. Lawrence Muthini Kasivi was charged at the Makadara Magistrate Court with causing the death of Emmanuel Muiriri at Dandora, Kamkunji Sub County in Nairobi on May 17. The suspect is a teacher at Wangu Primary School where Muiruri was a pupil. The learner had mistakenly gone home with a classmate’s school bag on May 16 because they looked similar and returned it the next day after realising it was not his. However, Mr Kasivi, his class teacher, hit the learner on the head as punishment before he fell unconscious. The minor’s parents were informed by Mr. Kasivi’s colleague that their child “was very sick” and that they were needed at school. On arrival, they found their son unconscious and took him to a nearby dispensary in the company of teachers and Muiruri’s classmates. The doctors at the dispensary referred them to Mama Lucy Kibaki Hospital in Embakasi where they took him, still unconscious and he was treated and discharged two days later with referrals to Kenyatta National Hospital and Mathari National Teaching & Referral Hospital.




 
 
 

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