Three girls
from St. Mark’s Eldonio Secondary School were on Wednesday morning found locked
nude in a house belonging to a Nakuru-based florist identified as Job Ochieng’.
The students,
who were reportedly sent home for school fees on Monday, July 18th, spent three
days at Mr Ochieng’s house in Mwariki A, an estate in Nakuru Town West
Constituency.
Neighbours
took notice of the presence of the trio at the 21-year-old’s house and alerted
authorities Wednesday morning.
Administration
Police attached to Flamingo AP Post raided the house, where they found the
three students naked.
The girls
were apprehended and taken to Flamingo AP Post for questioning.
Authorities
later arrested Ochieng’ outside the Nakuru County Referral Hospital Mortuary.
He confessed
that he was the boyfriend to one of the girls. He says his lover called him
Monday evening and informed him that she would be spending the night at his
house; and that she would be accompanied by two of her schoolmates who could
not make it to their respective homes as dusk had fallen.
The three,
however, did not proceed home the next day.
Area
Assistant Chief, Joseph Macharia, confirmed the incident terming it as
unfortunate.
“I had
received reports Wednesday morning from Nyumba Kumi elders that there were
three girls donned in uniform from St. Mark’s Eldonio Secondary School who had
had lodged at a man’s house for three days.”
“When women
at the residential place questioned the three girls, they told the women that
they shouldn’t be nosy. I took initiative to inform police about the incident.
AP officers raided the man’s house and arrested the girls,” added the chief.
“When we
asked the girls’ parents if they knew anything about their daughters’
whereabouts, they said that the girls were in school. However, we informed them
of what had transpired.”
Police have
since launched investigations into the incident.
Mr Macharia
has urged school administrators to inform parents when they send students home
for school fees, among other reasons.
“Teachers
should inform parents when students have been sent home, or when they are
missing in school, and parents should inform teachers when the students have
been sent to school.
“In short,
there should be a rapport between the two important parties in a child’s life.
School-going teenagers take advantage of the information vacuum that exists
when there is communication distortion between the two parties,” said Mr
Macharia.
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