Dhi Kucho: KCSE Candidate Suspended for Speaking Dholuo in School

By Getty Soila

Posted on 14 October 2023

-The principal, Kennedy Nyamolo, said the female student violated the school policy by speaking Dholuo

-Nyamolo said that students are expected to speak only the official languages of Kenya, Kiswahili, or English

-The girl’s mother is worried the suspension could affect her daughter’s performance in KCSE

A school in Homa Bay County suspended a student for allegedly speaking Dholuo in school.

Lala Secondary School principal, Kennedy Nyamolo, suspended the student citing the school doesn’t allow use of vernacular.

He said the student erred by speaking Dholuo on September 23, 2023, before a Ministry of Education (MoE) representative who was at the school.

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According to Nation, the management resorted to grouping the learners according to gender as other students refused to mention the perpetrator.

“Since the voice was of a female student, we had to separate the two genders to narrow down on who had violated the rules,” he said.

“She was being protected by her classmates. It took long before some students decided to admit that she was the one who spoke in Dholuo.”

HOMA BAY.
Sikund sekondar ma Lala e County ma Homa Bay oriembo jopuonjre ariyo wira ni gi wacho Dholuo e sikul!
Jopuonjre go eko gin ma ikore ne timo penj mar (KCSE).

Japuonj maduong’ mar Lala Secondary School Migosi Kennedy Nyamolo owacho ni Dholuo en dhok ma sakrilogo e… pic.twitter.com/1Qo9P8SlhO

— DHOLUO DICTIONARY (@Thriving_luos) October 13, 2023