A caning advocate from Kitui county has backed Education CS George Magoha's call to reintroduce the measure to tame student unrest. Nicholas Kaloki is a former high school teacher who in 2006 challenged in court a 2001 gazette notice by then Education Minister Kalonzo Musyoka banning caning. On Monday, Kaloki said he had seen the need for corporal punishment in schools way back in 2006, just a few years after the 2001 ban. And that Magoha had similarly “woken up to the reality” that caning in schools is necessary to stem indiscipline. “When I filed a case in Machakos High Court in 2006, seeking the return of corporal punishment in schools, I was within the law.

Source: The Star February 25, 2021 00:56 UTC