Litein Boys High School Strike Turns Bizarre with Cow-Riding and Kitchen Takeover

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Litein Boys High School Strike Turns Bizarre with Cow-Riding and Kitchen Takeover

A football match denied at Litein Boys High School turned into a night of madness, leaving property worth millions destroyed and the country in awe of the students’ antics.

Litein Boys High School in Bureti constituency was in chaos on Sunday night after students went on a destructive spree that has left the school community and the country in shock.

What started as a protest over being denied a football match turned into an extraordinary display of indiscipline. Videos online show students storming the principal’s kitchen, making a Spanish omelette and boasting of feasting on staff food supplies. Others paraded the school’s prized dairy cow, riding it around the compound like a rodeo.

By dawn, the damage was massive. The new Sh18 million administration block was reduced to rubble. The main gate was torn down, laboratories and computer rooms vandalized, CCTV cameras destroyed and books scattered all over the grounds. TV sets were smashed and walls defaced with graffiti targeting the principal, Richard Sang and his deputy, Mutai. Some of the messages were threatening and raised concerns about student radicalization.

Parents are despairing. “For the last three years Litein Boys has had strikes but this is the most destructive,” said Kennedy Cheruiyot, a worried parent. “We will again be asked to pay for it and it’s becoming too much.”

Leaders too have condemned the chaos. Kericho Governor Dr Erick Mutai, an alumnus of the school, called it senseless. “What is the link between being denied a soccer game and destroying millions of property and riding a cow like a horse? These are criminal acts.”

Kericho KUPPET Executive Secretary Mary Rotich said discipline starts at home, parents must guide their children. Former Roads Minister Franklin Bett who supervised the construction of the destroyed administration block in the 1990s wants an independent probe and thinks there might be external involvement.

With national exams around the corner, former principal John Rop warned of dire consequences for candidates. “It will be a disaster if candidates can’t sit their exams because of this destruction.”And one image will stick: students in uniform riding a cow around the school compound.

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Litein Boys High School Strike Turns Bizarre with Cow-Riding and Kitchen Takeover