Moi’s school Sacho High to compensate expelled learners

The High Court Tuesday ordered the top-performing Sacho High School to readmit six students expelled for alleged indiscipline last term.

The privately owned school associated with retired President Moi was also ordered to pay Sh150,000 to one of the students who had since left the school for another one where she was registered to sit for the national examinations.

Lady Justice Abigail Mshila said that it was fair and just that the future of the students be safeguarded by giving them an opportunity to complete their studies since expelling them now adversely affected their ongoing preparation for the end year national examinations.

The judge said she had been convinced by the students that their future would be negatively affected if the school’s decision to expel them was upheld.

Bad example

Earlier Sacho High School chief principal Richard Moindi had opposed the application saying that the students were a bad example to others and expressed fears that their continued presence in the school would adversely affect the performance and general discipline of the school.

But the students, through their parents, asserted that the school’s disciplinary committee comprising teachers did not have jurisdiction to expel them because there was no representative from the parents’ association.

Mr Moindi had said the five had also been duly registered to sit for the national examinations at Sacho and that the school was willing to grant them transfer letters once they get admission to new learning institutions.

The judge said she had been convinced that the right of the students to education must be preserved for them to redeem their future.