Busia: Drama as Students Storm Headteacher’s Home over School’s Football Saga
- Pupils from Mayenje Primary School in Busia county were hell-bent on winning a highly contested match with another team
- That, however, did not happen, as they accused their headteacher of match fixing and then went to his home to protest what happened
- In the TikTok video, it emerged that they also wanted their KSh 10,000 back from the teacher related to the match if having a fair game was not an option
Busia: A group of pupils from Mayenje Primary School in Busia county have angrily shared why they marched to their headteacher's home waving twigs after a sizzling match.
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Football, which is one of the beloved extracurricular activities in many schools across Kenya, is obviously popular in Mayenje Primary School as well, and they have invested a lot of time and money in it.
In a heated video shared on TikTok, one of the pupils alleged that they were playing so well against another team, but then their headteacher scuttled their expected good results.
He accused the older man of fixing the match so that they lose to the other team.
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Why were the Mayenje Primary School pupils angry?
"He didn't want us to play football, so when we were winning, he sabotaged the match because he wanted us to go study," said the lad.
"We didn't want to study, we wanted the game to continue or get our KSh 10,000," he added.
How did the Mayenje Primary School students protest?
Waving twigs in the air, the young boys and girls took to the streets, chanting at the top of their lungs.
They wanted an audience with the older man, who was nowhere to be seen on the field.
At the time of the interview, no other teacher was there, just students airing out their grievances. The headteacher lives in a rental house, and the children were not shy about pouring into the gate in numbers to make their grievances known.
Sadly, they didn't find their headteacher at home; he seems to have vanished into thin air, and some children speculated that he may have locked himself in the house.
Eventually, the kids started calling each other to go back home with no concrete solution to the problem at hand: uncertainty about their advancement in the football game.
Most netizens were stunned by the brave and confident children who were not ready to back down in the face of an alleged problem and confronted it head-on, while others called out the young ones for going to the home of their headteacher.
Speaking to TUKO.co.ke, counsellor Dann Mathews Were said he was stunned by the incident because during their days the home of the principal was accessible to only a few people.
"What concerned me, however, is why maandamano was the first go-to solution after the incident. There seems to be a lack of communication between the principal and his students and may affected how they see him in other ways," said Were.
"Principal meeds to talk with his pupils and win their trust back incase he did what they caaused him of and if he didn't they should get to the genesis of the problem. That means who spread the rumours and action should be taken," he added.
What were netizens' sentiments about the Mayenje drama?
wade.
"Hii ni mambo gani sasa, ati amejifungia kwa nyumba😅😅😅😅."
shiki:
"Yaani hawa watoto hawaogopi laana ya mwalimu?"
Evans Ochieng Kwoba:
"🤣😂😂Kenya sai kila mtu anafanya venye anataka kila mahali ni maandamano ...sasa surely mnafuata mwalimu hadi kwake why ?"
🍫CEC:
"🤣🤣🤣those are primary and JS students?"
Jessy Nelly:
"Hio Sasa sio poa, watoi wadogo hawa."
Goalkeeper caught in match fixing scandal
Another story revealed that match-fixing has long been a problem in the Football Kenya Federation (FKF) Premier League, and a goalkeeper was guilty of it.
A recent case involved goalkeeper Ezekiel Owade, who was in the spotlight for the wrong reasons after being linked to match-fixing.
This comes in the wake of former Tusker goalkeeper Patrick Matasi also being named in a similar case.
Proofreading by Jackson Otukho, copy editor at TUKO.co.ke.
Source: TUKO.co.ke
