Misikhu primary school roof blown off by rain storm

Written by Rosemary Wachiye

A heavy rain storm blew off the roof of Misikhu Girls primary, in Bungoma East, destroying a dormitory, a class, a teacher’s house and latrines that were fallen on by huge trees that surround the school premises Wednesday.

The pupils were in class when the incident took place but some of the pupils stated that they had a bang from the boarding section of the school and when they retired to their dormitories after their evening classes they found their books and beddings rained on and the whole dormitory roof flown off.

“We were in class when it was raining then we heard a bang but did not know what had caused it,” said Sheila Mung’oma a class seven pupil.

“Our books have been rained on, our bedding, food that we had in our boxes and right now we are left with nothing. It’s so bad that whatever happened yesterday happened,” said Caren Wamachali the school captain.

As much as there were no people harm towards the pupils, the school head teacher, Mrs .Judith Wafula complained of the massive damage the rain had caused the school.

“The damage caused by the storm felling trees on our classroom, a teacher’s house and the blowing off of the roofs form the girl’s dormitory will cost us Sh1.5 Million to reinstate the school back to the way it was,” said Mrs.Wafula.

However , she was quick to add that the learning procedure in the school has not been in any way affected by the occurrence, though some of the affected pupil’s books have been rained on and the pupils that used to sleep in that building to be forced to be relocated to the other dormitories.

“The affected pupils have been well accommodated in the other dormitories and there books have been aired out to dry,” said Mrs.Wafula.

A teacher at the school, Mrs.Bertha Mukusi urged the Ministry for Education to incorporate in their curriculum in teachers training institutions to train the teachers on the relevant skills of damage control and disaster management to equip them to handling any occurrence of the same case.

“Teachers should be taught disaster management in the training institutions to enable them to handle such occurrences as the one for yesterday,” Mrs. Mukusi.