Education Cabinet Secretary George Magoha has recanted a remark he made that homosexuals student should be barred from boarding schools.
Speaking after visiting a class of first level high school students being built at Arya Girls’ High School in Nairobi, Magoha said students of such character should not be in boarding schools saying they should not bother their classmates in their dormitories.
“If you want to hop from one bed to another, then you need to be released to go to a day school where you’ll be closer to your parents who are your first responsibility,” Magoha said.
The CS denied having directed schools to expel homosexuals from schools, saying that schools are only supposed to expel invasive and manipulative students.
He argued that gay students being day scholars will put them closer to their parents where guidance and accountability will be prioritised.
“We have no problems with homosexuals who do their business out in the streets. But if you are like the ones we have found, you move from one bed to another, we have proclaimed that those ones shall be day scholars,” he said.
“No one has told you to go and disturb another person’s child. Why don’t you wait until you go home, go to the streets and do what you want?” the CS posed.
The CS had made remarks in December 2021 suggesting that homosexual students should only join day secondary schools.
The remarks sparked mixed reactions with lobby groups and social media users condemning the directive prompting members of the LGBTQ community to protest over his remarks.
Lobbyist and parents are up in arms over delayed probe into alleged sodomy cases at St Aquinas High School in Nairobi amid claims of cover-up by the management.
This comes after Human rights defenders and parents have called upon the police to expeditiously undertake investigations that have stalled for more than a week now.
The appeal comes more than a week after a Form One student at the school was reportedly sodomised before he attempted suicide.
In a joint communique earlier today, the civil society demanded the stepping down of the Principal of St Aquinas School pending investigations on the alleged crime claiming that the school administration is trying to cover up and avoid taking responsibility over the incident.