Arson Caused 🔥Fire That Killed 🏫Schoolgirls In Kenya

Kenya's education minister says arson was to blame for a fire that killed nine pupils at a girls' boarding school in Nairobi over the weekend and that there had been similar attacks on other schools around the country.

Fred Matiangi said on Monday that some arson attacks were related to fights over staff appointments in schools, where senior positions can bring financial rewards.

"It was not an accident, it was arson," Matiangi said of the blaze on Saturday at Moi Girls School in the capital in which nine girls were killed and 10 injured.

Matiangi said there had been a spate of arson attacks on schools around the country, including in the coastal city of Mombasa and the western city of Kisumu.

He did not give the total number of attacks. More than 120 schools around the country were set on fire last year, according to research by a Canadian professor. Almost none of the cases have been successfully prosecuted.

UCJ, UNILORIN.