Kenyan fishermen on Migingo Island have protested Uganda’s forcible closure of the first and only Kenyan kindergarten on the island.
The preschool was recently set up following a collaboration between the office of the Migingo sub-location assistant chief and the locals.
Ms Esther Masaku, the Migingo sub-location assistant chief, says Ugandan security officers stormed the kindergarten and closed it on grounds that the island does not belong to Kenya.
Kenyans should vacate, the Ugandans said, according to Ms Masaku.
“This school was set up to serve the children of the locals here but unfortunately the Ugandan officials closed it down today claiming that it is a way of Kenya asserting her ownership of the disputed island,” Ms Masaku told the Nation.
