Learners at Munanga Primary in Malava Sub County are in shock after they found a coffin bearing a decomposing body behind one of their classrooms at their school compound.
The pupils at the school on Wednesday morning discovered the casket behind their class eight classroom and in fears scampered towards the school staff room while seeming as loud as they could.
The incident that paralysed learning for the entire day angered parents and locals at the school’s surrounding as they demanded answers from the head teacher Mr Charles Kasembeli, who they accuse of engaging in sorcery.
Mr Kasembeli is reported to have asked all pupils to contribute Sh10 as offering to a church in the area that the locals say has been praying for the school claiming some of its students and classes had been invaded by evil spirits.
Parent’s attempts to lynch the school head and two members of the church were thwarted by officers from Malava Police post, intervening to rescue the three before moving the found body to Webuye Sub-County Hospital Mortuary.
A parent, Jane Luvembe said they suspect that rogue pastors who the head teacher has been inviting to pray at the facility might be behind the dumping of the body at the school in an exploitation plot.
“We are angered by these persistent incidences at this school. The head teacher is being tricked by rogue pastors who are after making money from us. We want them investigated because we are tired of the claims that there are evil spirits here,” said Luvembe.
The area assistant chief Brown Juma, who learned of the happenings at the school from the head teacher, called the police together with whom they ascertained that the body of a child believed to have been buried 12 years ago had been exhumed and dumped at the school.
The officers arrested two suspects in connection with the incident.
