Gilgil Deputy County Commissioner Willy Cheboi confirmed a tragic incident at Shiners Boys High School in Gilgil, Kenya, that has left the community in mourning after a student; Ngugi Muciiri succumbed to wounds of stubbing while being taken to hospital soon after a violent confrontation ensued at night narrowing to five candidates as Kenya Certificate of Secondary (KCSE) examinations enter week 2.
A photo of Shiners Boys High School: Photo courtesy.
According to statements recorded, the students differed after one group lamented about fellow students having broken into the others’ box, a war of words that quickly escalated to the suspect stabbing his fellow student Ngugi Muciiri in the lower abdomen soon after a revision session when tensions flared between two groups of the four Shiners KCSE students.
The principal confirmed that four students, the student who stabbed the colleague and his three accomplices, are in police custody awaiting to be arraigned in court next week.
It was discovered the four students had been suspended from the school over disciplinary issues. Allegedly when they returned, they found their items destroyed and suspected that the victim, whom they attacked in the dormitory, was responsible.
The key suspect in a student murder incident at the Shiners Boys High School in Nakuru has since been apprehended by the sleuths hours after the incident after he was reportedly lured back to the school after he travelled overnight to Nairobi shortly after allegedly stabbing a classmate in an altercation.
Gilgil Sub-County Commander Winstone Mwakio said the suspect was found with several rolls of bhang in his jacket pocket and that he had been expelled from a school in Nairobi before his parents secured a vacancy at Shiners Boys High School, with the principal adding that the suspect had been serving a suspension before coming to take his national exams.
His three suspected accomplices were also arrested and are expected to serve as witnesses in the case.
According to the principal, the incident took place on the evening of Saturday after students had taken their supper noting that while he was in his office, he heard screams and commotions emanating from the dormitory which, together with other teachers, hurried to see what was going on.
“We heard noise and we had to run from offices to the dormitory to go and see what was happening,” said Mwangi.
Principal of Shiners Boys High addressing media on Sunday, November 10, 2024.
Unfortunately, by the time the principal and his team arrived at the scene, the victim was already stabbed and terminally wounded.
“By the time we were arriving at the dormitory, one of our students by the name Ngugi Muciiri, candidate index number 29, had already been stabbed in the lower abdomen and even the intestines were out,” he added.
On her part, Eunice Nyaboke, the mother of the candidate, teary lamented the death of her son saying it was a shocker to her family.
She noted that it was painful to educate a student for four years and only when he was about to complete his KCSE exams, he passes away.
“As a parent from form one to form four, you expect to go and harvest fruits at the end of four years, then all of a sudden, you are called and told your child is dead,” the parent said tears welling in her eyes.
The four suspects allegedly attacked Ngugi Muciiri prompting the key suspect to stab him leading to his unforeseen death as a result of injuries sustained. His body was transferred to the Nakuru morgue waiting for an autopsy examination.
Police in Gilgil, Nakuru County, were looking for the student after he allegedly stabbed to death his classmate on Saturday night.
The officers say the incident followed an altercation between students, police and other students. The security officials further said that four candidates were reported to have differed over personal items destroyed in school, leading to the incident that happened at about 8 pm.
The victim was declared dead on arrival at Nakuru Level Six Hospital, where he had been rushed for treatment.
Mwakio said the suspects had earlier been suspended from the institution but reported back for exams and found his items destroyed and suspected the deceased could be responsible for the acts.
Police wondered how the killer knife was sneaked into school even as he expressed concerns over indiscipline as the main cause of the incident. Mwakio revealed that the main suspect fled away with the knife before being lured back and arrested.
The victim was pronounced dead on arrival at Nakuru Referral Hospital. The body was taken to the Nakuru morgue pending an autopsy examination.
