Teachers and students have gained attention after a school principal used police officers and sniffing dogs to search students on opening day, where a student was caught with cannabis in the process.
Students from both primary and secondary schools have officially started returning to school after several weeks of vacation.
Students starting with Forms 2-4 will begin their first term of 2022, while students who complete Class VIII will join them early next month.
Reporting today the search process at a boys’ high school has drawn the attention of Kenyans to how tight security was.
Officers in uniform were deployed to search the students before they could go to the school premises.
They were also using sniffing dogs whose main job is to find out if there is anything illegal inside the students’ purchases.
Some students are known to be very clever and may take illegal products into school premises.
Kenyans in the final term of the 2021 academic year saw several cases of indiscipline from a good number of schools.
Students burnt their schools by getting petrol from outside. Schools are now using more secure means to ensure that students do not bring illegal items to school.
