By MN Reporter

Trouble has continued to brew at Migori Muslim Primary School within Migori town for over two years as warring functions of Somali community and muslims has boiled over.

The cosmopolitan public school whose main stakeholders are muslims has seen two warring faction at each other for long.

Migori branch Executive Secretary Caleb Opondi said the standoff has negatively affected the school performance and management which has affected pupils.

The factions are drawn from Jamia mosque and their rival with the standoff starting from 2015 leading to the transfer of former head teacher Aden Mohamed who has since been replaced by one Hamisi Musa all the way from West Pokot County.

Mohammed was transferred to Nyikendo Primary School.

“How can a head teacher be imported from West Pokot when Migori has enough qualified teachers? We want to urge the stake holders and parents who keep fighting that their standoff is a big embarrassment for our profession,” Opondi said.

Mohammed said his transfer was influenced by the warring faction who want to manage the running of the school.

“Some of them have not gone to school and are not well equipped with running a school,” he said.

But Musa said he came and found a deeply divided factions with some even questioning if he is a true Muslim to run the school which made him wonder if “only Somalis are decent Muslims, regardless of where I am from or my religion, I am a civil servant and a TSC official.”

In 2014, the school had a mean score of 244; in 2015 it deviated to 238 and sunk lower to 227 in the last years KCPE.