Njoro Girls’ students receive counselling after traumatic loss of colleague

Njoro Girls High School has organized counselling sessions for students after the controversial death of a form four girl.

Nakuru County Director of Education Victoria Mulili says that form four and three girls who had been sent home will get counselling as they resume their studies to help them cope with the loss of their fellow student

The school had experienced heightened tension following the death of Form Four student Brenda Akinyi, whose postmortem results confirmed she died of cerebral malaria.

Speaking in an interview Ms Mulili confirms that calm has since returned to the school even after the students who had been sent home reported back on Friday, February 8, 2026.

“Yes, calm has returned in the school. Counselling has been an ongoing exercise almost on a daily basis. The learners are calm and everything is well,” Mulili says. 

She noted that prior to the students being sent home, there was a brief period of unrest during which some school property was damaged.

“On that particular day, some windows in classrooms and the school bus were broken. However, police were called in very quickly and the situation was contained,” she says.

Mulili confirmed that an assessment of the damage had already been conducted. Officials from the Department of Public Works visited the school and prepared a Bill of Quantities to estimate the extent and cost of repairs.

“Public Works carried out the estimates. The Board of Management has the information on the value of the loss,” she explains.

The education official notes that priority is to ensure learners receive psychosocial support and return to normal learning routines as they process the loss of their classmate and schoolmate.

The death of this student had to protest in the Njoro community as residents sought answers from the school and unrest by students inside the school that had to be put to calm by police in both instances.

Akinyi's case had been perceived as negligence by the school where they did not call in her parents to get her medical attention.

In a previous interview with the student's parents, they noted that they were only able to seek medical attention for the student three day after her ailing in school without their knowledge.

"When we picked my daughter up from school on Friday, I took her to hospital, and she died on Saturday morning of January 31,2026. This situation sparked outrage on how medical conditions in the school are handled," says Akinyi's mother Millicent Anyango

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