A viral video from Forest Primary School in Kiminini, Trans Nzoia County, has ignited national fury after a parent was assaulted, restrained, and forced into a degrading display of her injuries all over unpaid lunch fees on her brother’s exam day.
On October 6, Dona Makena went to the school to challenge the decision that had sent her Grade 7 brother home. Other fees had been paid, she insisted. She only wanted the boy allowed to sit his papers and return home for lunch.
What followed, according to accounts circulating with the footage, was not dialogue. It was violence.
Teachers, including headteacher David Simiyu and colleagues identified as Naphtali Odunga and John Khamala, seized her. Hands were tied. She was dragged into the staffroom.
Kicks landed on her abdomen. Makena, who had recently given birth by Caesarean section, began bleeding.
In the chaos captured on video, she can be heard pleading with her father who had arrived and tried to intervene that she was already bleeding. Instead of stopping, the assault continued.
Reports claim she was forced to remove her underwear to prove the blood was real, yet the beating did not stop.
The images are raw: a woman restrained amid desks and papers, male teachers surrounding her, voices rising, a father attempting to record while being challenged.
The school, a place meant to protect and educate children, had become the scene of physical and humiliating abuse of a parent who came seeking fairness for her sibling.
Public reaction has been swift and furious. Social media is flooded with demands for accountability. “These are not teachers to be trusted with anyone’s children,” one commenter wrote.
Others called for the Teachers Service Commission and the Education Cabinet Secretary to act without delay. The video has racked up hundreds of thousands of views, turning a local fee dispute into a national indictment of how some schools treat the very families they serve.
This is not simply about lunch money. It is about power, dignity, and the basic expectation that schools remain places of safety rather than sites of brutality.
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