A video of a group of students ganging up on a fellow student at Popondetta Secondary School in Northern Province has gone viral on social media causing outrage with parents of students attending the school.
Popondetta Secondary School Principal, Mr Clarence Honani said the incident happened yesterday however the school was unaware until the video was posted and shared.
“There were 5 grade 10 girls involved and the video shows one of the students hitting the victim, a grade 9 student while her friends watched on and took the video.”
“It is unknown at this time why they did that to the victim but I have suspended the girls and they will be facing the School Board of Governors.”
Mr Honani said that bullying is a big issue in schools and it saddened him that this incident happened in his school.
He added that as soon as he was notified of the incident, he called up the girl’s parents to come and meet with him.
They were removed from the school grounds and will be called back once the BOG is ready to meet with them to decide on the right punishment for their actions.
The school has made it clear that it won’t be tolerating such behaviour.