Emmanuel Simiyu a teacher on board at St. Teresa’s Bikeke girls has been arrested alongside two students for planning and setting ablaze three dormitories which were burnt on the Sunday 17th of July night.
Police in Kitale arrested the teacher in connection with inciting students to strike and burn the three dormitories destroying properties worth millions of shillings.
Confirming the arrests, Trans-Nzoia county police commander Lilian Okembo said the teacher was arrested on Monday evening along with two students and is helping the police with investigations.
The culprits will be arraigned in court for incitement and loss of properties.
The teacher who was on duty on the fateful Sunday is alleged to have incited students to go on strike following delays in serving breakfast and was overheard telling students to do what is necessary as a way of bringing up their displeasure so that their cries can be heard.

The teacher is alleged to have planned the arson with the two students with three dormitories being set ablaze by students which according to the police is valued at Ksh. 6M.
The three dormitories were set ablaze when some of the students were in their classrooms going about their studies.
Several of them were affected by the shock they underwent through as a result of the arson and were rushed to Kitale district hospital for treatment.
Following the arson, several students were forced to go home with their parents the following day with some who had arrived on the school immediately they heard of the incident and has affected the studies for several of them following the incident.
St. Teresas Bikeke student held for attempting to set dorm on fire
Police are also holding a 19-year-old student from the neighboring boys school, St. Teresas Bikeke on accounts of trying to set a blaze their dormitory that houses 200 students.
The student had tied his blue bed sheet above on his bed at around 2 am and tried to set it on fire.
Criminals liaising with forces within schools to distribute petrol
The county commander also disclosed that a clique of criminals are operating with some forces within the schools in the county in distributing petrol to schools that is used by students in setting a blaze their respective schools.
She said that a probox car with number plates KCG 933P tried to gain entry into St. Monica’s school claiming headmistress had requested for petrol but luckily the headmistress was in and as it dawned on them that their ill motive had been known and were under strict interrogations by the security agents at the school, they drove away immediately, she said the police are investigating the matter and the car in question is being searched by the police.
Illegal drugs being sold to students
She also disclosed that there was rampant sale of drugs to students in schools nowadays with the drug peddlers using several motives to accomplish their mission naming some shoe shiners who have devised a new method of selling drugs to students in their kiwi tins which they sale unnoticed.
She called upon the public to report any such cases whenever they come across several personalities involved in the illegal businesses targeting young minds so that immediate action is taken against the culprits and called upon parents to offer some parental advice to their children to help arrest the situation that has taken toll in Kenyan schools.