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By JOSEPH MUCHIRI
Police in Mbeere South district are holding 12 boys of Karaba High School after they were caught trying to burn the school on Friday night.
Eight litres of petrol confiscated from the students is at Karaba Police Station.
Area OCPD Bernastein Shari said the Form Three and Four students had planned to raze down the school but their teachers discovered it and reported to the police.
Shari said the police immediately swung into action and arrested the suspected boys before the heinous plan.
Shari said they are investigations are ongoing to establish the source of the petrol and bring to book any person who might have assisted the students to get it.
He said the course of action they take might see the students being arraigned in court or be suspended from the school.
“Once our investigations are complete, the students might appear before court and be charged accordingly. Alternatively, the school administration after informing the parents might decide to suspend the students,” said Shari.
The police boss appealed to parents to counsel their students to be tolerant in the wake of a spate of strikes that have rocked Embu County.
On Thursday, students of Kegonge Boys’ High School in Embu East district set ablaze a dormitory to demand for the transfer of the principal.
The students, who had reported to the school two days earlier after again going on rampage for the second time this term, were also demanding for the replacement of water taps with new ones claiming the current ones are dirty and unhygienic.
Police were, however, called in and chased the rioting students away from the school to prevent further damage, which the boys had said they were to carry out.
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