Lake Primary School headmaster Zeblon Oala (right) shows a sixth-grade scene at his school in Homa Bay Town where a security guard was killed Wednesday night before assailants snatched digital teaching materials.
Police in Homa Bay are searching for the suspects who killed a 33-year-old security guard at Lake Primary School in Homa Bay Town before removing them with digital education materials on Wednesday night.
The criminals entered the school and killed a guard named Samuel Okoth Odoyo.
They also carried two projectors, two laptops and two tablets used by Grade One.
Headmaster Zablon Oala reported that when he went to school on Thursday morning, he found his office door broken.
“I immediately suspected something was wrong. I found out that someone had broken into my office because some of the documents were not arranged the way I had left them the previous evening, “he said.
Further investigation revealed that the metal bars on his office window were broken.
The security guard was nowhere to be seen.
Mr Oala said he decided to check the classrooms to see if the criminals had access to other buildings as well.
That’s when he stumbled upon Odoyo’s body in a pool of blood in a sixth-grade classroom.
It is suspected that the stones were weapons of mass destruction.
“His head was broken and there were blood stains on the rocks,” Mr Oala said.
Investigators took the stones as evidence.
They also collected other evidence from other areas into which the criminals had entered.
Homa Bay Sub-County Police Commander Sammy Koskei said the incident is being investigated.
He called on residents to cooperate with investigators.
The body was taken to the morgue of Homa Bay County Referral Hospital.
By noon on Thursday, students were still waiting for their classrooms to be cleaned before they started their lessons.
