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Form One Student Beaten To Death By Teachers Over Alleged Physics Exam Cheating

SK 2 years ago 2 min read

The Nandi County Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) has started an investigation into the unsolved death of a form one student from Chemase secondary school in Tinderet sub county.

Kelvin Kiptanui died on Friday evening while receiving treatment at Nandi Hills sub county hospital, where he was transferred by Chepsese health center after complaining of chest pains.

According to the school principal, the deceased was reportedly beaten in turns by two teachers at the institution after being discovered cheating on mid-term exams.

It is claimed that he and another student were caught cheating on a Physics test between 0830hrs and 0930hrs.

“The school management didn’t have any sickness report from the boy only to learn later that he had developed complications,” a police report indicates.

Confirming the incident, Tinderet OCPD, Mohammed Jire said his officers have already started probing the circumstances that led into the death of the student who was admitted at Chemase secondary school few weeks ago .

“We will look into every allegations to establish the truth about the unfortunate incident and take appropriate action,” said Jire.

And on the claims of cover up by the institution, Jire said that a postmortem will be conducted on the body of the deceased to ascertain the cause of his death.

“If the post-mortem reveals the cause of death to be the beating from the said teachers then we shall prosecute them for murder,” assured the OCPD.

The administrator urged the deceased’s family and members of the public to remain calm and allow the investigating agencies to finish their work, assuring them that justice would be served.

On Sunday evening, students at the school were agitated, demanding more information from the management about their colleague’s death.

Since then, the school has been closed indefinately.