Uhuru grieves with Kakamega school tragedy victims, demands immediate probe

On Monday evening, President Uhuru Kenyatta sent a message of condolences to the families who had lost children in the Kakamega school tragedy.

The President wished the injured children quick recovery and ordered for a thorough investigation to establish the cause of the unfortunate incident.

As of Monday night, the death toll from the stampede that occurred on Monday evening at Kakamega Primary School had  risen to 14 after one more pupil succumbed to injuries.

Two of the injured pupils were admitted to the Intensive Care Unit at the Kakamega County Referral Hospital.

According to the OCPD the pupils most of them in Class Five were leaving their classes heading home when the stampede occurred on a staircase at around 5pm.

It is reported that a teacher at the school was beating some pupils prompting the other learners to run down a staircase and in the process, some fell and were trampled to death.

Education CS Prof. George Magoha expressed his condolences to the affected families, even as he assured that the government would get to the root cause of the tragedy.

“The loss of a child is very painful. My condolences to parents who have lost their  want to children. We want to find out why we had a stampede in the school. PS Belio Kipsang will be in the school tomorrow. We will find out what happened and action will be taken,” said Magoha in a phone interview with Citizen TV.